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EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (www.patrick-breyer.de)

submitted 2 weeks ago by hatingfedizen@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71975475

Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications (“Chat Control 1.0”) to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure the required absolute majority of 361 votes. As a result, mass scanning is now permitted again until 2028.

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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 98 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

This is exactly how democracy is not working. EU just pushed it through. Despite multi rejections!

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

An entire generation is learning in real time, first hand, that Democracy isn't working.

[–] iguessimlemming@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I insist on calling it democratism - an ambition, nice ideal, doesn't work in practice. Same way they talk about other isms.

[–] knomie@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is our implementation of democracy not working. One might even argue that our system is not actually democratic, because, as this example shows, neither the will nor the interests of the people are represented.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org -1 points 2 weeks ago

I never voted for creating the EU

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

~~System is not working~~ System is working exactly as intended

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago

How?

[–] greenbit@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

System is working how they want it to work. Democracy is a far cry