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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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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 24 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is exactly the dumb shit take from y2k.

I Still hear people go on about how "it was supposed to be this big thing and then nothing happened! Smart people are so dumb!"

Yeah nothing happened because a lot of smart people worked very hard to fix the goddamn problem, you fucking shitwaffle.

Here? "You dum dums got so worked up thinking it would pass and then it didn't, so the freak out was for nothing!" yeah it didn't pass because a lot of Europeans got very upset about their governments trying to spy on them harder than ever.

I'm not European, so I can't say how people talked about it openly on the metro with random strangers, but online? People were vocal and pissed. A PROPER government (lol can we have some of that functioning democracy please) listens to its people. This was them listening to the people.

The people's reaction was appropriate, and necessary. And shouldn't be lessened just because "lol you guys got so propaganda'd and it was obviously never gonna happen and I knew cause I'm so smart" is quite the take on things.

[–] ashughes@feddit.uk 12 points 6 hours ago (2 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.

[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

vaccines also. nobody is getting sick so vaccines must be unneccessary

[–] neatchee@piefed.social 11 points 6 hours ago (1 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 5 hours ago

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.