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.
Most media outlets have already decided that the asylum policy story and the cooperation between Weber's EPP and the far-right is the headline story. The ChatControl story will not play a major role in the news rotation today. I expected that. Doesn't reduce my happiness that we won this round too, though :)
So please, all, do me a favour and send a nice and honest Thank You note to the MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) that made sure that ChatControl 1.0 didn't make it. Tell them how relieved you are that they helped to make this possible.
Update: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/189270 to see who voted against.
Bogomil Shopov - Бого@jwildeboer is there a way to see who voted?
@bogo Link added.
@jwildeboer So the proposal was to extend and it didn't pass. So the actual votes NO are the ones we need to thank for?
Dr. Christopher Kunz@bogo It's a bit more complex. There were important amendments that got enough votes. These amendments would have protected encrypted communications and a few more things. If these amendments would have made it, the commission and council would be in a bad position. So the whole proposal had to go to save face. But the result is that we have a better understanding of what will happen in the next phase.
Luminos@jwildeboer Alternative source with better sorting and filtering: https://mepwatch.eu/10/vote.html?v=189270 This is for the final vote that lead to the complete rejection of the law proposal.
Vojtěch Horký@jwildeboer Really disappointed in the socialists. Also surprised that three Green MEPs voted yes, but I guess there are exceptions to everything.
@VojtechHorky The three greens that voted against are all from Sweden.