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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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[–] ashughes@feddit.uk 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It reminds me of when climate hoaxers claim the hole in the ozone layer shrinking proves those campaigning to fix it were just fearmongering.

[–] neatchee@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I work on software security (not it/infosec) and deal with this constantly. Bad stuff didn't happen so we can scale back security, right? No, shit for brains, either the bad stuff didn't happen because we prevented it, or the bad stuff just hasn't happened yet because the vulnerability wasn't discovered, or worse still, the bad stuff DID happen and we haven't been informed yet. Either way, please do not make my job harder.

[–] ashughes@feddit.uk 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I can totally empathise. I used to work in QA for a couple different software companies, including around CVEs and security bug bounty programs. One company scaled back their QA department to near nothing, the other eliminated QA altogether, instead relying on devs to QA their own stuff or automation. It’s not going well for either of them.

[–] neatchee@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

it's not going to for either of them

it never does lol

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