🫧 socialcoding..

The #EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/?foo=bar

From @chatcontrol site creator, in a HN comment:

> In an unprecedented move, the #EPP is attempting to force a repeat vote tomorrow, seeking to overturn the otherwise principled March 11 decision and instead favouring indiscriminate mass #surveillance. In an attempt to avoid this, the Greens earlier today tried to remove the repeat vote from the agenda tomorrow, but this was voted down.

> As such, [today], the Parliament will once again vote on Chat Control. And unlike March 11, multiple groups are split on the vote, including S&D and Renew. The EPP remains unified in its support for #ChatControl. If you are a #European citizen, I urge you to contact your #MEPs by e-mail and, if you have time, by calling. We really are in the final stretch here and every action counts. I have just updated the website to reflect the votes today, allowing a more targeted approach.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522709

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

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Show thread🫧 socialcoding..6h ago

@chatcontrol

It's eye-watering stupid how politicians in @EUCommission and #EU parliament - in a time when there's big opportunity to forge more unity in our Union, and (re)gain people's #Trust - continue to pursue deep #dystopia against the #People's will over and over and over again. It is embarassing and shameful, and should be criminal.

Here's some excerpts from the HN comments thread:

> It seems abundantly clear that the options on any vote in any legislature for a proposed bill are always “yes” and “ask me later”.

> Is it still a democracy if you just keep redoing the vote until you get the outcome you want?

> It's really surprising to me that this issue keeps coming up time and time again, until I realised that it's non-voted in parties actually trying to pass this stuff!

> It's all about the lobbying. It's honestly crazy that essentially bribery is legal. A few thousand here and there for campaign donations. It's amazing how cheap politicians are.

Don't betray our trust!

Show threadJens Oliver Meiert12m ago

@smallcircles @chatcontrol @EUCommission –

> Is it still a democracy if you just keep redoing the vote until you get the outcome you want?

This. While exceptions to this need specifying, repeat votes should be considered undemocratic.