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.”
Tremendously disappointing. But also good to know which MEP has sense.
Utterly shameful. I see Aodhán Ó Ríordáin supported Chat Control too which surprises me. Disappointed.
Someone explain how voting For was him voting against?
Because it is a “proposition de rejet”.
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🟢 🟩 Green means AGAINST Chat Control 🟢 🟩
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🔴 🟥 Red means FOR Chat Control 🔴 🟥
It’s deliberately vague, even the politicians found it confusing.
From HERE
“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.”
It basically allows any company to scan and read any of your messages if they are able to.
Because of the unusual procedure, voting in Strasbourg was confused and chaotic. One member told Parliament Vice President Sophie Wilmès: “We don’t know what we are voting on.”
The vote means member countries must now decide whether to accept the Parliament’s changes. If they do not, and propose a different version, the law will go to a dreaded “conciliation” procedure. That procedure was used earlier this year to pass a long-stalled law on air passengers’ rights but, other than that, has not been used since 2013.
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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
