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.
Solarpunk Davy@jwildeboer thanks for voicing this duality, I had a similar feeling reading both messages but the chatcontrol were all celebratory.
Are you saying it was an exchange of support? Like we vote against chatcontrol if you support us with X?
@SolarDavy No. The asylum policy topic was simply more relevant today. The ChatControl vote was less "sexy". That maybe was the best that could happen. So irrelevant that it made it ;).
@jwildeboer ugh, bleak times.
@SolarDavy Welcome to politics and lobbyism ;) It's called The Sausage Factory for a reason. The biggest wins don't have to make the news to be influential. Been there, learned that, on rinse and repeat since 20+ years :)