It’s a fucking disgrace.
Today (9 July), only 314 MEPs voted to reject Chat Control 1.0 — short of the 361-vote absolute majority needed to stop it — so warrantless mass scanning of private messages continues until 2028. The fight over the permanent Chat Control 2.0 resumes in September. TAKE ACTION NOW to demand your MEPs defend your private messages.
https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/195775#result
Big Tech’s Lapdog indeed.
“It is a temporary exception that lets U.S. tech firms scan direct messages on services such as Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Gmail and iCloud without a warrant or prior suspicion.”
The vote was to delay implementation of the act to allow for further discussion.
To allow EPP to get their numbers and support up.. They probably believe that because they were so easily bought off, that everyone else will be.
They are the main party pushing it. Ursula Van Der Leyen is aligned with them, so unsurprising, so is Roberta Metsola.
What Metsola did, calling a vote when 113 MEPs were not available and at such a short notice was horrifically undemocratic.
It’s easy to come to the assumption that the EPP are buried somewhere in the pockets of US big tech. Especially after what happened with SKG.
Thank you