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EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you (www.patrick-breyer.de)
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Chat Control didnt pass - they didnt even vote because they were afraid the result would be embarassing.

And we got told so many times, that EU now wants Chat Control. But it was a big fat lie.

EU is a democracy with different opinions, and when a small group of facists tries to read your chats, it does not represent the EU opinion.

But the whole media got you thinking so. Proving even on Lemmy, you and me are extremly prone to propaganda.

I quoted the article here with the news:

In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU’s controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure.

The government did not take a position on the proposal.

This blocks the required majority in the EU Council, derailing the plan to pass the surveillance law next week.

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 156 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Isn't this how liberal democracies are supposed to work? How exactly did "the media" get the better of "us"?

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 65 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good thing happens.

wAkE Up ShEePlE

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Good thing happens.

AnOtHeR oRpHaN eScApEd ThE oRpHaN cRuShInG mAcHiNe!!!

[–] lowleekun@ani.social 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess op was pessimistic as was i and that's the narrative that was/kind of pushed: It is going to come in one way or another. Instead of: It is not going to win and if it is we are not going to accept it.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, buy... It really is a horrible idea. Any media outcry is warranted. Not like right-wingers spouting nonsense of eating cats and dogs...

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Media covinced people that it was coming and it didn't - my understanding of the argument.

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That seems like a statement. I'm still lost on how this answers the question

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They answered the second question. The problem is that OP was not actually posing anything coherent.

They're alleging some made up media conspiracy that makes no sense and undermines the impact of the media on the outcome.

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

OP was not actually posing anything coherent

Yeah, agreed.

I'm not hugely on board with the comment answering the second question though. For me, it's a bit too similar to saying that meteorologists lied to us because they said there was a 60% chance of rain and it didn't happen. In the context of this question its a lot more complicated than that though