| ▲ | x775 3 hours ago | |
I am the creator of Fight Chat Control. Thank you for sharing. It is unfortunately, once again, needed. The recent events have been rather dumbfounding. On March 11, the Parliament surprisingly voted to replace blanket mass surveillance with targeted monitoring of suspects following judicial involvement [0]. As Council refused to compromise, the trilogue negotiations were set to fail, thus allowing the Commission's current indiscriminate "Chat Control 1.0" to lapse [1]. This would have been the ideal outcome. In an unprecedented move, the EPP is attempting to force a repeat vote tomorrow, seeking to overturn the otherwise principled March 11 decision and instead favouring indiscriminate mass surveillance [1, 2]. In an attempt to avoid this, the Greens earlier today tried to remove the repeat vote from the agenda tomorrow, but this was voted down [3]. As such, tomorrow, the Parliament will once again vote on Chat Control. And unlike March 11, multiple groups are split on the vote, including S&D and Renew. The EPP remains unified in its support for Chat Control. If you are a European citizen, I urge you to contact your MEPs by e-mail and, if you have time, by calling. We really are in the final stretch here and every action counts. I have just updated the website to reflect the votes today, allowing a more targeted approach. Happy to answer any questions. [0] https://mepwatch.eu/10/vote.html?v=188578 [1] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/the-battle-over-chat-contro... [2] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/OJQ-10-2026-03... [3] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-... | ||
| ▲ | weakened_malloc an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
You're doing God's work mate. It's really surprising to me that this issue keeps coming up time and time again, until I realised that it's non-voted in parties actually trying to pass this stuff! I didn't realise that the EU parliament simply says yes or no to bills and doesn't actually propose new laws, whilst the EU Commission are appointed and decide on what bills to push through. | ||
| ▲ | daoboy an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Thank you for what you're doing, this is an important fight. The story is tragically illustrative of the maxim that you can oppose terrible legislation a hundred times but they only have to pass it once. | ||
| ▲ | dinoqqq an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
You're a hero | ||
| ▲ | belter 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
How can people support your work? | ||