The EU Council and its participants have decided to withdraw the vote on the contentious Chat Control plan proposed by Belgium, the current EU President.

Moritz Körner, Member of the European Parliament, disclosed the decision on Twitter. Swedish publisher SVG said, “The question was removed at the last moment from Thursday’s ambassadorial meeting in Brussels”.

  • LordCrom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    They are just delaying the vote for another time… Hoping that next time it will fly under the radar and there won’t be a huge backlash of discontent.

    If the vote fail, they just wait a year, rename it, and try again.

    Same thing happens in the US. Law proposed that people hate, people organize, start a campaign that fights for news airtime, bringing awareness of the dickery about to happen, and then succeed after a hard battle and many many volunteer hours spent.

    In 6 months Congress just renames it the “I love kittens” act and sticks it on a must pass bill.

    Fighting bullshit laws is exhausting…

    • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Don’t be surprise if it reappears as an attachment to a fishing quota law or a law defining sizes for underwear…

      • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
        0·
        3 months ago

        it reappears as an attachment to a fishing quota law or a law defining sizes for underwear

        Sounds very Putin.

        • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Actually, this is a common occurance in the US and EU. One of the previous, court-captured laws actually was riding with fishing quota regulations.

          • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Yeah, Putin doesn’t have to hide anything because nobody is allowed to object to any crazy laws he invents.

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Find the politicians by name who voted yes for this, and display them in public.

    Let the capable open source community then take over going through their phones, since they must be OK with their phones being scanned, right?

  • ಠ_ಠ@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Note the vote was withdrawn, not actually voted against. They’re pushing this for a later date because there was no majority.

    “The EU Council did not make a decision on chat control today, as the agenda item was removed due to the lack of a majority, (…)

    Belgium’s draft law, (…) was instead postponed indefinitely. (…) Belgium cannot currently present a proposal that would gain a majority. In July, the Council Presidency will transfer from Belgium to Hungary, which has stated its intention to advance negotiations on chat control as part of its work program.

  • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I’m still fucking mad the Left voted yes for this. Campaigning on a no and then turning their coats immediately after the elections. Disgraceful, and I hope whichever party members are responsible get booted.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        3 months ago

        I have zero doubt that many core proponents of anti-privacy laws are pedophiles — that’s why they always add measures to ensure it’s illegal to invade their own privacy.

        • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          In Russia one of biggest proponent of anti-privacy laws is Milonov, which looks like pedophile ans rumored to be gay.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    01·
    3 months ago

    I am suspicious they realized that they weren’t going to be able to make a loophole for themselves - I’ve seen several articles in the last week on how they were trying to do that.