🫧 socialcoding..23h ago

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.

Show threadKerplunk

@smallcircles @chatcontrol

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

Getting very sick of the rinse and repeat cycle of us surveillance support.

How much are EU Ministers being paid for supporting meta and co

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Show thread🫧 socialcoding..13h ago

@Kerplunk @chatcontrol

About that HN comment stating that bribing is de facto legal.. a number of years ago there was this consumer interest series on Dutch TV (forgot name) where presenter Teun van der Keuken (known from Tony's Chocolonely slave-free chocolate) investigated the lobbying practices in Brussels.

It was really shocking and eye-opening to see how some of these MEP's only function was to accept legislation proposals written entirely by lobbyists, which they blindly supported and helped bring to a vote. Literally putting these documents onto the pile without ever reading them.

It was also painfully obvious that an EU that wants to be more and better than it is today, must find a way to deal with this legalised corruption.

Show threadEF9h ago
@smallcircles @Kerplunk @chatcontrol this is why Brexit was important and just how far the EU has deviated from the free-trade organisation it was set up as.
Show threadKerplunk9h ago

@smallcircles @chatcontrol

It was also painfully obvious that an EU that wants to be more and better than it is today, must find a way to deal with this legalised corruption.

Still is painfully obvious. Widely reported in Germany was the cardboard boxes found in EU Offfices, full of Banknotes and expensive articles.

Those are probably now exchanged on dark non surveilled supermarket parking areas or in busy trains and buses.