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BY ONE FUCKING VOTE!
https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/189574
Vote out every single fucker who is trying to limit our freedoms!
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.
Even worse I think there was one more vote for the extension but they need 50% +1 to pass and there were 24 abstentions.
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
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?
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2026-0070_EN.html
That sounds kinda reasonable then. If the company has access to the chat logs in plain text, they should probably be scanning it for CSAM. Though the use of AI to identify it is concerning, given the low accuracy. And I guess there's also the risk of communications with someone's doctor being flagged.
On reflection it's still a dumb law.
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.
IIRC (but could be wrong) the EPP wanted stricter chat controls, not an extension of what was already there.
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.
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