The EU Council and its participants have decided to withdraw the vote on the contentious Chat Control plan proposed by Belgium, the current EU President.

Moritz Körner, Member of the European Parliament, disclosed the decision on Twitter. Swedish publisher SVG said, “The question was removed at the last moment from Thursday’s ambassadorial meeting in Brussels”.

  • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    70·
    5 months ago

    You’ve gotta defend for an infinite amount of time, but they’ve only gotta succeed once.

    • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
      381·
      5 months ago

      Yep, and as I pointed out in another comment in this thread, Chat Control isn’t the only piece of legislation like this that’s in the works.

      Considering that the extreme right just won big, I have no doubt that one of these fascist surveillance packages will go through. Yeah, at first it may be used for catching criminals, until it isn’t

      • Grippler@feddit.dkEnglish
        29·
        5 months ago

        Nono, it will always only be used to catch criminals, that won’t change…it’s what makes someone a criminal that changes.

      • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        Considering that the extreme right just won big

        Someone won big yachts from Putin.

        • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
          16·
          5 months ago

          Source? In Germany at least that’s not the case, it’s mainly the conservatives who push for it. In the original vote, only the greens clearly opposed it. Later on, SPD (center-left) and FDP (liberal) changed course to also oppose it. Couldn’t find results for other countries though, so I’m genuinely curious.

          • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
            73·
            5 months ago

            The labels get confusing especially between countries, but left and right are normally viewed as being economic policy classifications, but you can have authoritarians on right and left and all need to be fought.

            • LesserAbe@lemmy.worldEnglish
              43·
              5 months ago

              I don’t think that’s accurate, there’s a social axis from left to right too.

                • LesserAbe@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  7·
                  5 months ago

                  I’ve seen the compass, but in real life conversation when people say left or right they don’t exclusively mean economic views. For example, access to abortion or LGBT rights are generally seen as supported by the left and opposed by the right.

                  You’re right it’s reductive, and really there are many dimensions to political thought.

                  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    41·
                    5 months ago

                    Exactly, and I try to point people to things like this to try to break that left vs right thought. I hope it helps someone.

                    I’m left on some issues, right on some, and disagree with both on others, and I think that’s pretty common for most people. However, we only get two realistic options, and they split up issues and “force” you to pick which basket you prefer. I’m worried people will slowly adopt views from the basket they pick since the alternative is needing to pick the other basket.

                    Anyway, rant over. :)

          • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
            111·
            5 months ago

            I believe all parties in EU are not really understanding technology in general. So I think it’s a very bad decision to give these people power over these kinds of rules. They just have no idea what they are doing frankly.

            • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
              5·
              5 months ago

              Yep, no disagreement there. This sort of mass surveillance is a fucking terrible idea no matter who’s behind the wheel

              • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
                3·
                5 months ago

                exactly, they these people are constantly trying to come up mass surveillance, over and over and over again. Never ending story.

            • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              I believe all parties in EU are not really understanding technology in general.

              There are pirates. Well, after last elections it seems to be the pirate. Only one.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Yes. Technically, a similar vote could repeal the law just as easily but there is a history of governments not giving their power away easily; implementing it also sets a precedent and creates technical enforcement options for other governments willing to go through with something similar in the future, or for hackers to exploit because gov-rooted devices will remain in operation for years after the potential repeal.