Jan Wildeboer 😷
The conservatives in the EU parliament, led by Manfred Weber, together with the far right, voted FOR drastic measurements against refugees. That was more important than to please the Big Corporations and the forces that want to destroy privacy so #ChatControl was avoided for the moment (but it is not gone). That's the TL;DR. Not really a win. Not really a loss.
I will celebrate that #ChatControl 1.0 didn't make it. But I am aware that this win for liberal and left-leaning people came at the high price of a conservative-far right ad-hoc coalition that did evil things today. The EU parliament is no longer a reliable defender of human rights and freedom for all. So a bitter taste remains.
Markus Feilner@jwildeboer It was at #FOSDEM25 when I talked with MdEPs in the Parliament and they told me "the firewall to the right has already fallen." Manfred Weber is a liar, he never intended to NOT work with the right wing racists. He only cloaked his true intentions, that was the impression of his centrist and center-left colleagues that I talked to. I was surprised that he could carry on with this for so long.
@mfeilner Manfred Weber is preparing to become the next commission president, he desperately wants to be von der Leyen's successor.
@jwildeboer what a prick. Sorry for necessary verbosity