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Finally some good fucking news. Now let's make it so there's no 2.0 3.0 etc constantly trying to sneak this in - we need to enshrine privacy into real laws.
Once and for all... until the next vote?
Everything is temporary.
Political participation is a full-time job, keep the pressure on and the change will endure.
What is this? Good news? In this economy? It simply cannot be!
This is democracy manifest!
Yay Europe! Genuinely happy for you folks.
Maybe someday we’ll have freedom and privacy in the US :’)
It's definitely starting to feel like having your rights enshrined on unalterable tablets of stone, but which must be re-interpreted by a half dozen political appointees holding a seance with the founding fathers every few months, may not be the platonic ideal of governance that Americans are constantly telling the world it is.
Halt! You have gone below the mandatory threshold for nationally mandated jingoism. An ICE unit has been dispatched to your location to bring you to the RFK Right-To-Labour camp.
The beating will continue until moral improves.
Yay for the EU! Hopefully you guys get a law that will permanently enshrine your privacy rights (or rights to encrypted chats at least).
GDPR already exists, but there is no such thing as permanence in politics. Constant struggle
Good News! I was so afraid for our future in Europe.
Losing freedoms in our modern times will lead to just another authoritarian state, which will eventually lead to shit.
Awesome
Can we now put that in some form of European constitution, pretty please with a cherry?
Or we put it on a timer and let it bubble up in some months to reevaluate it over and over again. Wouldn't that be fun?
Doesn't mean anything yet. Parliament can get overruled by the Council, whom seem more in favor of untargeted scanning.
In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years.
Good news. However shouldn't that also include online age verification?
The war over civil rights is continuing, no questions but this has been an important vote against the surveillance state ambitions.
Hell yeah! Great to hear that
Shit, I've heard so much fear mongoring about this for so long. Also on here.
The EU's stance have never been anything other than no chat control. All everyone else have pointed out are proposals not even reaching the votes, or got voted down.
I get that you are afraid that the EU would do it anyway and pass the proposals. But they never did, and even if it got voted for today, it's not even final and needs to go to the council who is openly against it.
But so nice that this is FINALLY put down.
It's always better to be worried for nothing than not worried for something you didn't pay enough attention to. Even if something fascist has no chance of passing, you should still resist it as loudly and as aggressively as possible, every single time.
Glad to know. I'd rather be overly cautious than overly careless about privacy, tho (looks across the Atlantic)
A lot of lemmings really hate the idea of democracy actually working somewhere in the world.
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