Mastodawn

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

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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🫧 socialcoding..10h 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!

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Jens Oliver Meiert 3h 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.

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🫧 socialcoding..

@j9t @chatcontrol @EUCommission

Generally speaking the pursuit of creating "The European Union of Mistrust" isn't the way to go.

Sure, #governments have an urge for control in hypercomplex modern and chaotic #society. But just throwing #tech at it, is NOT the way, and will only backfire. Look only how much much 'safer' the world has become with all the advanced tech we already dumped into society, right?

If we want to build harmonious and peaceful societies that have the right conditions for #democracy to flourish, we better look at fostering social #cohesion between people. Focus on people's virtues, rather than assume vices in a distrust-first society.

"Distrust-first" is the environment of #hypercapitalism, where vices thrive and unfairly advantage people who wield them more.

#Trust is the currency that allows society to progress, and #trustworthiness is upon which it can stand.