skilledtothegillsEU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
Nice. I guess they didn’t expect to get a majority to support it anymore. Definitely a win for now, but I’m sure they’ll try again.
Tywèle [she|her]I guess that realisation came after Germany said they will vote “No”
Blastboom StriceLets gooooo🔥
(It has happened in the past, it will probably happen again in a few months, but still, its a win!)
Wasn’t this rejected once already? Perhaps if they wanted to do something useful, they should pass something that says that if something is majority disliked twice or something, then it should be withdrawn and not proposed again for at least 100 years.
DiplomjodlerThey will keep trying again and again and again. The assault on privacy has been going on for decades and it will never stop.
DasnapYou’ve gotta defend for an infinite amount of time, but they’ve only gotta succeed once.
dactylothecaYep, and as I pointed out in another comment in this thread, Chat Control isn’t the only piece of legislation like this that’s in the works.
Considering that the extreme right just won big, I have no doubt that one of these fascist surveillance packages will go through. Yeah, at first it may be used for catching criminals, until it isn’t
melroyActually it was the Left wing that mainly voted yes for this. Just saying.
Doesn’t change who’s in charge now
I believe all parties in EU are not really understanding technology in general. So I think it's a very bad decision to give these people power over these kinds of rules. They just have no idea what they are doing frankly.
Yep, no disagreement there. This sort of mass surveillance is a fucking terrible idea no matter who’s behind the wheel
exactly, they these people are constantly trying to come up mass surveillance, over and over and over again. Never ending story.
uisI believe all parties in EU are not really understanding technology in general.
There are pirates. Well, after last elections it seems to be the pirate. Only one.
Source? In Germany at least that’s not the case, it’s mainly the conservatives who push for it. In the original vote, only the greens clearly opposed it. Later on, SPD (center-left) and FDP (liberal) changed course to also oppose it. Couldn’t find results for other countries though, so I’m genuinely curious.
I did found: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/ All the red countries where in favor actually. Yellow were in research. Green is opposed.
here is the document itself: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-11316-2024-INIT/fr/pdf#page=4
Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0, stopchatcontrol.fr🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇩🇰 Danish: chatcontrol.dk🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole Table of contents: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence and the End of Anonymous Communication Take action to stop Chat
The labels get confusing especially between countries, but left and right are normally viewed as being economic policy classifications, but you can have authoritarians on right and left and all need to be fought.
I don’t think that’s accurate, there’s a social axis from left to right too.
I think of authoritarian as being up and down, and social and economic views as left and right. Check out the political compass if you haven’t. It would be nice if it was 3D with economic and social policy being separated though.
I’ve seen the compass, but in real life conversation when people say left or right they don’t exclusively mean economic views. For example, access to abortion or LGBT rights are generally seen as supported by the left and opposed by the right.
You’re right it’s reductive, and really there are many dimensions to political thought.
Exactly, and I try to point people to things like this to try to break that left vs right thought. I hope it helps someone.
I’m left on some issues, right on some, and disagree with both on others, and I think that’s pretty common for most people. However, we only get two realistic options, and they split up issues and “force” you to pick which basket you prefer. I’m worried people will slowly adopt views from the basket they pick since the alternative is needing to pick the other basket.
Anyway, rant over. :)
Nono, it will always only be used to catch criminals, that won’t change…it’s what makes someone a criminal that changes.
Ha, fuckin’ touché
Considering that the extreme right just won big
Someone won big yachts from Putin.
ChaoticNeutralCzechYes. Technically, a similar vote could repeal the law just as easily but there is a history of governments not giving their power away easily; implementing it also sets a precedent and creates technical enforcement options for other governments willing to go through with something similar in the future, or for hackers to exploit because gov-rooted devices will remain in operation for years after the potential repeal.
And “Chat Control” isn’t even the only thing like this in the pipeline. There’s the so-called “security by design” bullshit (which does the opposite of what then name implies) that’s actually even worse than Chat Control and has also been worked on in secret, and which’d include mass scale surveillance of not just photos but pretty much everything, and is much more likely to pass than Chat Control.
oce 🐆2001 especially.
They can just give it a new name and change some details to propose it again. Like how they made it “voluntary” this time (but you can only send text if you don’t agree).
Such a rule is basically un-enforceable. Because it is nearly never exactly the same text. So it is always the first time voted on.
What they could do is create a law that protects the integrity of E2EE. At least in this case.
But I guess that will never happen… Well, a girl can dream.
Or law that forbids any mass surveilance. By any entity.
Better define some basic human rights as a core tenet and fire repeat offenders.
They are just edging this law till nobody pays attention. Democracy at work!
Indeed, until the next time, where it doesn't have enough news coverage. China 2.0 here we come.
DojanI’m still fucking mad the Left voted yes for this. Campaigning on a no and then turning their coats immediately after the elections. Disgraceful, and I hope whichever party members are responsible get booted.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that left mean anti-authoritarian. Left or right is an economic stance, and is orthogonal to beliefs surrounding government rights Vs population rights.
Left or right is an economic stance
What about the social stance?
Also that. But I'd say that wewbull's point stands that there are more and less authoritarian flavours of that too
Measured on a different axis.
You can have authoritarian left Stalin’s Russia) and authoritarian right (Nazi Germany). You can have liberal (i.e. non-authoritarian) left and right too.
It’s clichéd, but the political compass explains the concept, but it’s still only one extra dimension. It’s still far better than just left Vs right.
The Political Compass – a brief intro
Check out the political compass, which is an interesting way to conceptualize political leanings. I don’t think the test is particularly good (I have issues with a few of the questions), but the answer I get is pretty close to where I think I should be placed, so maybe there’s some merit to it.
I’m consistently in the bottom half near the center line, and the two major parties in my country are in the top right. I guess that just demonstrates why I fail to see much difference in what I care about in the two major parties, since moving toward either direction is a move away from me.
Anyway, I hope this is a decent demonstration of how the left/right divide doesn’t tell the whole story.
The problem with political compass arises when you understand that political and economic freedoms are in conflict with each other under capitalism.
? The compass takes economic systems into account. Left vs right is socialism vs free market capitalism, and top vs bottom is authoritarianism vs libertarianism.
So if you think capitalism causes issues, you’d nudge those ideologies further up the authoritarian spectrum.
QuantumSoulNot exactly orthogonal, left right could be viewed as an Principal Component Analysis reduced to only one axis. So there are correlations between stances but so much dimensions lost that it’s nearly useless
Two dimensions is 100% better than one.
That’s not true at all, mathematically. That’s why we have a measurement for co-variance or correlation. If two dimensions are 100 correlation, they can most definitely be reduced to one.
…but they’re not in 100 percent correlation in this case, and you’re naive if you think they are .
I agree and three dimensions is 100% better than two
When I say Left, I mean Vänsterpartiet, not some nebulous coalition. See their stance here.
Chat control was a proposal on an EU level which meant that applications and social media platforms would be forced to scan all of their users messages. The proposal has been put forth by the EU comission as a part of a larger package with the purpose of protecting children against exploitation on the internet. The Left Party considers that the part specifically about chat control wouldn’t contribute to the end goals. There are more effective measures that need to be taken in order to protect children.
After significant criticism from us and many others the EU parliament has significantly improved the proposal. They have among other things removed all parts regarding automatic scanning. This has meant that all parties now are in support of the EU-parliament position. The proposal is now on hold among the member states and instead another, temporary law has been extended to counter sexual abuse of children on the internet.
Overall the Left (Vänsterpartiet) campaigns on a position of being against surveillance and the like. The Social Democrats (part of the Left coalition) however is in favour of it, because of course they fucking are. My issue here is obviously that they’re lying to our faces.
On a much greater scale I have a lot of issues. For the most part I align mostly with V and MP, but we’re talking on a level of like 60-70%, so they don’t actually represent my views particularly well. In the grand scheme of things that’s also not something I’d expect; I’m rather extreme but I also realise that there’s only so much we can do when operating within the system we currently have. Thus I align with the parties that align the closest with the core beliefs I have, V and MP.
One of my biggest icks when it comes to politics is hiding behind children. It infuriates me because it’s never genuine. It’s never about the fucking children, they’re just a convenient excuse because the moment someone criticises a suggestion, you can turn around and say “Oh so you hate children? Are you a paedophile? Why do you support children being harmed?”
Chat control
Chat control var ett EU-förslag som innebar att appar och sociala medier-plattformar skulle tvingas att skanna alla sina användares meddelanden. Förslaget har lagts fram av EU-kommissionen som en del av ett större paket som ska skydda barn mot exploatering på nätet. Vänsterpartiet anser att den del
Left or right is an economic stance, and is orthogonal to beliefs surrounding government rights Vs population rights.
Left or right is political stance. The closest you can get it to economy is by saying “left prioritizes political freedoms, while right economic”.
That’s USA only. Visit the rest of the world at some point, maybe.
I know about USA only what I can find on the internet. I mean, statement “Russia is American colony” isn’t that far from truth, but it isn’t USA itself.
Until next try in a few months.
What i read here sometime without source, that UKUSA and BND (as their dog) since Snowden push for breaking of encryption, seems more and more plausible.
USSA - totalitarian total surveilance since 2007 or earlier.
China - totalitarian total surveilance since the beginning.
Russia - totalitarian total surveilance since 2016.
You know, even Russia doesn’t look that bad. Also, fuck Putin, Yarovaya, Milonov and fuck FSB/NSA/other spying organizations.
Damn.. this was almost China 2.0 in EU. This was a close call people... this is not good.
Can we please identify the guys always pushing encryption-breaking ideas?
‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content
An investigation uncovers a web of influence in the powerful coalition aligned behind the European Commission’s proposal to scan for child sexual abuse material online, a proposal leading experts say puts rights at risk and will introduce new vulnerabilities by undermining encryption.
I hate dishonest titles and URLs. In reality, this shit has nothing to do with “child sex content.”
randintglad it got stopped. hopefully it never will.
From what I understand it was withdrawn as a vote „in favor of the goals of the commission“ was not guaranteed. In part because Germany announced its decision to withdraw support yesterday. Seems to be standard behavior.
Find the politicians by name who voted yes for this, and display them in public.
Let the capable open source community then take over going through their phones, since they must be OK with their phones being scanned, right?
ripcordAt least some of them were discussion giving themselves an exception from it. So no.