Chat Control Rejected Again By Parliament
from chigga@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 14:17
https://lemmy.world/post/44769657

#privacy

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ceigid@feddit.org on 26 Mar 14:37 next collapse

Will they just revote again then until it passes?

chigga@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 14:46 next collapse

hopefully no. but we are still in danger

melroy@kbin.melroy.org on 26 Mar 15:32 collapse

This is indeed the plan. Only 1 time is enough to get this through the system. But it requires 500 times saying no first.

guy@piefed.social on 26 Mar 16:12 collapse

When the European Union is low-key IRA

OrganicMustard@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 16:35 collapse

That would make us Margaret Thatcher, which is very gross

guy@piefed.social on 26 Mar 16:44 collapse

Well based on the seats in the parliament, most eu voters are rightwing to some degree. So it’s Tatcher going undercover IRA to bomb herself?

Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Mar 14:58 next collapse

Why was chat control allowed to be presented again in the first place.

chigga@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 15:26 collapse

this is the real thing, this is almost certainly unconstitutional.

greedy corps going against law as usual.

themurphy@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 15:30 collapse

No, not really. It’s because they retracted the proposal before going to vote, because they knew it wouldnt pass after Germany publicly said they would vote against.

Then they changed some stuff and send it again, which is now rejected as it seems.

Now they need to wait, but they didnt before.

leagman1@feddit.org on 26 Mar 15:50 next collapse

Who are they?

guy@piefed.social on 26 Mar 16:13 collapse

The Commission probably since they’re the only entity who can propose law

leagman1@feddit.org on 26 Mar 16:30 collapse

How do I respond to this^^

Yes, I think we’re all assuming the law came into parliament the regular way. I assumed the “they” are supposed lobbyists who are standing behind and outside the regular entity…

Am I missing something or are you pulling a Nielsen on me? “Coffee?” “Yes, I know.”

guy@piefed.social on 26 Mar 16:42 collapse

Oh, sorry. Thought you actually didn’t knew, my bad!

chigga@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 16:15 collapse

So this war is far from an end huh?

undeffeined@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 17:46 next collapse

They won’t stop pushing until they get it

Bloomcole@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 00:33 next collapse

April 3, already planned

Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Mar 07:16 collapse

We have to win every time. They only need to win once.

ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com on 26 Mar 15:03 next collapse

Can it just fuck off for good this time?

chigga@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 15:27 next collapse

PLEASE

eldavi@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 15:58 collapse

it’s indicative of the system we’re in. our oligarchs have enough money to pay people to push for this in perpetuity while the rest of us are forced to give up some degree of our lives to fight it off on a field of battles that’s tilted towards money; they will win eventually unless the system itself is changed.

iByteABit@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 15:28 next collapse

Good, but pretty meaningless overall while they still allow lobbying to take place.

They pretend to care that lobbying means corruption from corporate interests, but doing anything meaningful to stop lobbying entirely and punish anyone still doing it would be “authoritarian communism” now, wouldn’t it?

TommySoda@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 15:45 next collapse

They’ll just change a few things and try again. I feel like we’ve been hearing about chat control on and off for about 5 years now and I can’t imagine it’ll go away soon.

HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip on 26 Mar 15:49 next collapse

Saw this then scrolled more to see the EU going after porn sites for age verification. 😞

a4ng3l@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 15:55 next collapse

Let’s celebrate this victory… even though it’s concerning that it is a recurring topic :-/

prex@aussie.zone on 26 Mar 16:20 next collapse

About fucking time for some good news.

lb_o@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 00:10 collapse

It is concerning news, because we narrowly dodged it this time by one vote.

iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 16:50 next collapse

Where can I see who voted for and against? I want to know if I need to change who I vote for next EU election.

chigga@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 16:54 next collapse

I think that Patrick posted it. basically the ones against where the conservatives, both left and right where against (even if there were some people inside those parities who voted to continue the scanning)

EDIT: apparently EPP voted against not because they want to support privacy but because the proposal was not enough invasive. they were afraid that it would have stopped their Chat control 2.0 proposal.

WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 17:59 next collapse

For those of us out of the loop, who is Patrick?

dingleberrylover@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 18:02 next collapse

Definitely not a Krusty Krab

baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 Mar 18:04 next collapse

i think they mean patrick breyer from the german pirate party

kapulsa@feddit.org on 26 Mar 18:06 collapse

Probably Patrick Breyer, who often posts about privacy issues in the EU parliament.

www.patrick-breyer.de/en/

WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 18:27 collapse

Thanks!

Bloomcole@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 00:32 collapse

What?
I see conservatives+ extreme right pro. Also some fake left

Against greens -real left.

(Not absolute since they vote individually)

But by faction:

pro: EPP,ECR, ID/Patriots

Against: EFA, The Left, Renew Europe, S&D(divided)

Undecided: S&D, Renew Europe

ChairmanMeow@programming.dev on 27 Mar 11:59 collapse

howtheyvote.eu/votes/189574

EPP and ECR voted against extension, but IIRC the reason is that they wanted stricter controls instead. Most other parties were largely in favour of extending the current chat control mandate.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 12:23 collapse

True, was confused.
This was the result on the initial proposal, not the vote on extension of the exemption.
So as I understand it, we already have chat control since there is no legal framework (initial proposal didn’t pass) and this exemption allows them to spy on us.

MoffKalast@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 18:37 collapse

Scroll down and select your country: fightchatcontrol.eu

It’s always the ones you most expect.

bampop@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 23:19 collapse

Green = “opposing”, red = “supporting”… “chat control extension”. I guess the greens are against the chat control proposal, though that’s hardly clear, and there seem to be more reds than greens so that suggests the chat control proposal was accepted, or is there some other layer to this? Also the stance of a state bears no relation to that of its representatives. Very confusing

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca on 26 Mar 23:27 next collapse

The “Chat Control” proposal would legalise scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos.

it’s explained right there above the vote summary

bampop@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 00:03 collapse

It’s not the topic of the vote I’m trying to clarify but rather trying to make sense of that web page showing who is voting for what, and how, if at all that is connected to the European Parliament vote. That website suggests overwhelming support for the proposal at both state and representative level, I’m not sure what to make of that.

MoffKalast@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 10:26 collapse

Yeah it seems to be backwards, they voted for an “Extension of the temporary derogation”, which I assume means if do you want to take more time to discuss this problem vote yes, or vote no to enact the newly proposed law now. Which is why the greens are paradoxically for the proposal and the EPP is against. Another layer of shenanigans to confuse people I guess.

howtheyvote.eu/votes/189574

bampop@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 11:21 collapse

It could be, although it also seems that “opposing” representatives are usually of the left/green persuasion and the right wing is mostly “supporting”, which is not what I’d expect to see in that case. All I can say for sure is that it’s very confusing.

EDIT: thanks for that link 😁

Bloomcole@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 00:21 collapse

352 against

248 pro

44 undecided

A simple majority will do

bampop@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 11:30 collapse

I’m talking about a web page linked to by MoffKalast, see comments above

Bloomcole@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 11:55 collapse

Well the proposal is to extend the temporary exemption that expires on April 4.
As it is now under this exemption THEY ARE ALREADY doing their dystopian scanning.
Since there is no legal framework to do this they and it’s against the current laws they use this exemption until they can force the final law that legalizes it.

Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Mar 17:10 next collapse

see u all on monday

lb_o@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 00:10 collapse

Dude, we’re protesting now until all those fuckers who voted in favor of chat control are voted out of parliament. We have names!

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 18:15 next collapse

they will keep trying in the most sneaky ways until they are deposed. they only need to succeed once.

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today on 26 Mar 19:00 next collapse

We should go to war against corpocracy, until all corporations are bankrupt.

EVERY. DAMN. ONE.

[deleted] on 26 Mar 21:22 next collapse

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OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 21:38 collapse

Ew dawg get a grip

mathemachristian@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 22:58 next collapse

Why do we have to keep fighting our own government for our rights? Why can’t our government just represent us?

Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc on 26 Mar 23:33 next collapse

Governments don’t represent the common people anymore.

mathemachristian@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 23:58 collapse

We should topple the EU then tbh

anugeshtu@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 00:51 next collapse

To put it in Douglas Adams words: Because the politicians are lizards ;)

orc_princess@lemmy.ml on 27 Mar 02:32 collapse

Because unfortunately our rights are opposed to the will of capital and they serve capital first and foremost

Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Mar 23:19 next collapse

Why can’t they vote on a ban to do any chat control bills? Stop this nonsense from happening again.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 00:07 collapse

If you have money you can ask the lobbyists.

brbposting@sh.itjust.works on 26 Mar 23:26 next collapse

Congratulations!

lb_o@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 00:07 next collapse

BY ONE FUCKING VOTE!

howtheyvote.eu/votes/189574

Vote out every single fucker who is trying to limit our freedoms!

1984@lemmy.today on 27 Mar 08:26 next collapse

Thats actually insane in itself that it got that close. Next time they will succeed. :/

People are so stupid to support this. They dont seem to understand that its never about protecting anyone and its always about building dystopia.

chigga@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 09:23 next collapse

i don’t understand, was EPP for or against the extension ? Cause my understanding was that they asked to have a second vote even if the first one already rejected the extension.

ChairmanMeow@programming.dev on 27 Mar 11:55 next collapse

IIRC (but could be wrong) the EPP wanted stricter chat controls, not an extension of what was already there.

orosus@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 16:16 collapse

I don’t understand the votes on that website, most people from EPP voted 👎 (against the extension) but that means they are against chat control? Or in favor? What european parties are opposing to the chat control, I want to know which parties we can trust on this matter.

chigga@lemmy.world on 28 Mar 17:33 collapse

as another comment said, EPP was against this proposal due to it being not strict enough. They want full control of your chat (e2ee ones too). they were afraid that this would set a precedent for limits for chat control and voted againts

freeman@sh.itjust.works on 27 Mar 11:07 next collapse

Even worse I think there was one more vote for the extension but they need 50% +1 to pass and there were 24 abstentions.

WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works on 31 Mar 12:56 next collapse

as regards the extension of its period of application

does it mean that this vote was only about the extension of the regulation that allowed voluntary participation in scanning for chat providers?

honestly, that’s the lesser of the worries, we know facebook and fo are scanning all messages going through them no matter what

WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works on 31 Mar 13:02 collapse

also, I was surprised that in my conservative country no MEP voted with acceptance. but maybe it’s because the proposal included adding clauses like this?

(v) not applied to interpersonal communications to which end-to-end encryption is, has been or will be applied;

www.europarl.europa.eu/…/TA-10-2026-0070_EN.html

Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works on 27 Mar 03:02 next collapse

I imagine they’re thinking, “Well we will see what the new vote next month has to say about that!”

PixeIOrange@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 13:50 collapse

If politicans say something the opposite seems to happen so good bye private chats :(