It would help if European voters stopped behaving like spoiled children and voting for wannabe dictators because inflation or immigration or whatever.

Even more insane that almost 2/3 of countries support this.

"You can't vote a fascist away."

Next up: tomorrow.

Certain death tomorrow is better than certain death today.

I share your pessimistic view on what this win means, but don't get disheartened. It is still a win for privacy and citizen rights.

The thing is that the presidency of the Council will change (I remember reading: from Hungary to Poland) at the beginning of 2025. Now look at the map which sides Hungary and Poland are on.

Yes, this time... but we won again and i think it is important to remember that. i think this will be brought up again but we need to spread the word when it is happening and stand up again and again when it is happening. We need to win everytime but the politicians only needs one time "democracy" it is called.

Yes this will be brought up again and again but everytime it falls it is a win for us, i think it is important to remebemer that. We need to share information and stand up next time too. it can also become better in the future, Swedish FRA (like USA´s NSA) says e2ee is important and urges people to use it. Netherlands inteligent agency says that chatcontrol harms national security. FBI and CISA urges people to use e2ee after china hacked into lawfull intercept backdoors. All this have happend since last time chatcontrol was on the agenda and this time 2 more countrys has agreed to say no.

FBI and Cisa: Nederlands inteligent agency 1: Nederlands inteligent agency 2: Swedish FRA:

Too many

I can only talk about France as that one is super obvious to me: They been fighting (peaceful) protests organizers. Like hacking their phones and getting all their data from all the possible platforms, in the hopes of shutting them down using the slightest thing that can get them into trouble.

If you look at the swedish parties only one is in support, but they are the biggest :/

*two months

They'll probably try to sneak it into some other law, hoping no one will notice until it's too late.

Don't get to excited. The ÖVP really wants chat control and it's one of the many pain points of the current coalition talks with SPÖ and Neos.

what do you mean? austria has a great reputation

Hey, well the reason is that both the right and left parties both want this to pass. They say its to "protect the children" even if this law would violate the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Also they want to use the crime rate to justify this law of mass surveillance.

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We're dealing with a little WW2 style problem ourselves with Russia eating away at Ukraine. Would love to come and help you all, but before we do anything to a country that prides itself in having the biggest stick we gotta clean up our back yard first.

As the IRA said to Margaret Thatcher, they only have to succeed once.