What's perfect is the marketing campaign to call it by what it actually wanted to do, ie Chat Control. Whoever did this was so successful that we didn't even know the bill's official name, instead knowing it by what it actually wanted to achieve.

Good thing the EU didn't take a page out of the US' book, because things like the PATRIOT act are already pithy and hard to outmarket.

If RPCCSA were actually called PROTECT, the nickname "Chat Control" would have been fighting a losing battle.

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miki123211 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It's just a HN thing though.

Ask a European who isn't in tech, and they won't know what you're talking about. Maybe they will today specifically, this vote is bound to get some press, but in general, mainstream media doesn't care much about this bill.

Even Europeans in tech who aren't in the "tech equivalent of gun nuts" culture that HN seems to exemplify are 50/50.

	▲	latexr 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> It's just a HN thing though. It’s not. People on Reddit, Mastodon, and other websites are also aware (of course not everyone, but not everyone on HN either). > Ask a European who isn't in tech, and they won't know what you're talking about. People who haven’t heard about Chat Control haven’t heard the bill’s real name either. That’s true of the overwhelming majority of EU regulation, Chat Control isn’t special in that regard.
	▲	stavros 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah but that's the intended audience. The Europeans who aren't in tech weren't likely to know about this anyway.