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
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    5 months ago

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

    • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
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      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
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        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.

          • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
            1·
            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.

            • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
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              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.

            • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
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              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
                1·
                5 months ago

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

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
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      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.