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EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you (www.patrick-breyer.de)
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Chat Control didnt pass - they didnt even vote because they were afraid the result would be embarassing.

And we got told so many times, that EU now wants Chat Control. But it was a big fat lie.

EU is a democracy with different opinions, and when a small group of facists tries to read your chats, it does not represent the EU opinion.

But the whole media got you thinking so. Proving even on Lemmy, you and me are extremly prone to propaganda.

I quoted the article here with the news:

In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU’s controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure.

The government did not take a position on the proposal.

This blocks the required majority in the EU Council, derailing the plan to pass the surveillance law next week.

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That is the American approach to legislation: get in as many laws that favour you or your sponsors, and pray the courts let at least some of them through.

That's not how this is meant to work. The courts shutting down a law is a last measure, when everything else has failed and hell's about to break loose.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I mean duh but similar bad things have passed and got rejected by courts so it‘s a very functional mechanism. The EU isn‘t very comparable to the US system by the way.