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[PotNoodle Overwatch @PotNoodleOW]

Jetpack Cat from #Overwatch has tragically DIED from an EXPLODING head 🤯

[meona 😹🔻 @MeowersMonarchy]

im getting electrical burn on my tongue with how much i'm licking

[Paul Moore - Security Consultant  @Paul_Reviews]

I honestly don't know how @vonderleyen can say it's "privacy preserving" with a straight face.

Do I need to hack it again?

[Efrat Fenigson @efenigson]

Remember, Age Verification must be implemented by all European countries by end of 2026.
"It's to protect the children". Sure.
2026 is the year the internet closed in on humanity.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The EU used a procedural trick on the last day before recess to ram through mass scanning of private messages, even after the majority said no.

This is how bureaucrats override the people when the vote doesn’t go their way.

You simply don’t have rights in Europe, only privileges the administrative state can revoke whenever it wants.

That is what they call their “democracy.”

[Mikko Ohtamaa @moo9000]

YouTube has just taken down the political discussion clip about the EU's Chat Control, and the video is no longer viewable in the EU.

This has been confirmed by several parties. The video is still available outside the EU.

@puheenaihefi podcast is a Finnish current affairs program with 60k subscribers. In this episode, Peter Sund, CEO of the Finnish Information Security Cluster (Kyberala ry) offered pointed criticism of the EU's new Chat Control directive, which was enacted under questionable circumstances.

Because the media is in Finnish, it is highly likely the censorship request came from a Finnish government official or a related party.

This makes it troublesome.

Because the Finnish constitution §12 guarantees freedom of expression.

Preventing political publications is a criminal offence: Abuse of Official Position, punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years.

You can listen to this episode on Apple Music and Spotify.

Spotify link https://t.co/lw249mESyf

Dysfunctional YouTube link https://t.co/1kYDSECM5l

[I like blades @ExtremerBG]

@EPPGroup GO FUCK YOURSELFS. NOBODY IS FOOLED. YOU ARE TRYING TO CREATE A SURVEILLANCE STATE. YOU WILL FAIL.

[🇫🇮✸⌘Lucien Lambent⌘✸🇫🇮🇪🇪🇲🇳🇭🇺 @LambentLucien]

This wasn't a normal loss. The numbers on the board show a majority of MEPs actually voted to reject Chat Control today. It failed anyway, because the EPP used a rarely-invoked procedural maneuver to force a second reading, which flips the threshold from "simple majority to block" to "361 absolute majority to block," meaning every absent or abstaining MEP effectively counts as a yes for reinstating the scanning regime.

Parliament had already rejected this exact measure twice this year, most recently by a wide 311-228 margin in March. Getting it revived required deliberately timing the vote for the last session before summer recess, when attendance is predictably lower, specifically to make the 361 threshold hard to reach even with majority opposition in the room.

It's about a procedural trick engineered to make the popular outcome structurally unreachable regardless of how people actually vote.

Redo the vote until you get the outcome you want.

[mert @mert]

mass surveillance is coming

> first 5 votes fail
> have another vote
> invoke technicality to require majority to vote AGAINST rather than requiring majority to vote FOR
> do it when everyone's on vacation so not enough numbers to vote against

demonic creatures

[Sven Clement @svnee]

The European Parliament voted AGAINST Chat Control. 314 to 276.

And it passed anyway.

Let me tell you how: they needed 361 votes to say no. On the last day before vacation. Every empty seat counted as a yes.

They lost the vote. They won the law.

That’s not democracy. That’s a trick. #ChatControl

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Bad news, The European Parliament has approved the extension of the EU’s temporary ChatControl 1.0 rules until April 2028, but the way it passed sparked backlash.

In today’s vote, MEPs voted on a proposal to reject the Council’s position on the extension:

> 314 MEPs voted to reject it.
> 276 MEPs voted against rejecting it, meaning they supported the extension.
>17 MEPs abstained.

Even though more MEPs voted to reject the extension than to support it, the motion still failed.

This happened because the vote followed the EU’s second-reading procedure, which requires an absolute majority of all Members of the European Parliament(at least 361 votes) to reject the Council’s position.
A simple majority of the votes cast was not enough.

As a result, the Council’s position was automatically approved, and the ChatControl 1.0 extension was adopted.

The extension keeps the temporary rules that let online platforms voluntarily detect and report child sexual abuse material (CSAM) while the EU continues working on the permanent ChatControl 2.0 proposal.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

C'est passé. 331 contre 304.

Cet après-midi le Parlement européen a voté l'urgence sur Chat Control le scan de vos messages privés. Pas le vote final : jeudi. La manœuvre est plus intéressante que le résultat.

Le Parlement avait déjà refusé ce texte. La dérogation a expiré en avril. Alors le Conseil l'a ressuscité en seconde lecture la procédure où il faut réunir une majorité absolue de 361 voix pour le bloquer, où les abstentions comptent comme des oui, calée pile sur la dernière séance avant l'été quand la moitié de l'hémicycle est déjà en vacances. Le service juridique du Conseil lui-même dit que ça viole l'article 7 de la Charte. Ils le savent. Ils le font quand même.

Mais voici ce que personne ne veut voir.

Le problème n'est pas que ces gens soient malveillants. Ils ne le sont probablement pas. La technocratie de Bruxelles n'utilisera sans doute jamais cet outil pour vous écraser elle est trop molle, trop procédurière, trop occupée à se justifier.

Le problème est qu'on ne construit jamais une infrastructure pour le pouvoir qu'on a. On la construit pour le pouvoir qui vient.

Et ce qu'ils assemblent, brique par brique, dérogation « volontaire » par dérogation « volontaire », c'est l'arsenal parfait. Le jour où une vraie crise économique portera au pouvoir des gens qui, eux, n'auront aucun scrupule, ils n'auront rien à inventer. Tout sera déjà là. Le scan généralisé, normalisé, légal, opérationnel. Une arme chargée posée sur la table, qu'il suffira de ramasser.

Hayek l'avait compris : la route de la servitude est pavée par des administrateurs pleins de bonnes intentions. On ne cède pas sa liberté d'un coup. On la cède ligne par ligne, « pour protéger les enfants », « pour lutter contre le terrorisme », toujours pour une raison que personne n'ose contester.

L'histoire ne retiendra pas ces gens comme les protecteurs de quoi que ce soit. Elle les retiendra comme les architectes de la cage. Ceux qui ont bâti l'appareil, et l'ont tendu, souriants, à ceux qui savaient s'en servir.

Jeudi, 361 voix. C'est le dernier verrou.

[Alternative News @AlternatNews]

This is Roberta Metsola, the sneaky President of the EU Parliament.

She is responsible for the shenanigans surrounding the 3rd vote on the exception clause for chat control.

She broke several EU rules, like “there must not be an emergency vote on an issue that is being voted on the second or third time.”

Setting the vote on the day when most MEPs return home is another level of trickery.

She lines up alongside Mrs Leyen and Kallas in the phalanx of Europe's destroyers.

[Larry Engineer 🍡 @larry0x]

News I saw today about the EU 🇪🇺:

- Chat control passed
- EU mandates new cars to install face scanning camera
- EU to require passport verification for accessing internet

Fantastic

[Sentinel Alliance @SentinelSwiss]

Voting mass surveillance on the last day before summer break, when nobody's watching.

Palpatine would be proud.

#ChatControl

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

🚨 EVERY EUROPEAN NEEDS TO KNOW THIS:

The European Union is turning into an anti-democratic surveillance apparatus.

In March, the European Parliament REJECTED the extension of “Chat Control.”

So what did Brussels do?

While everybody is distracted from the World Cup, they furtively brought it back through a rarely used procedure and are trying again.

The goal is to allow private communications to be scanned under a derogation from normal ePrivacy protections.

They’ll have access to your private messages and your photos. And, as always, mass surveillance is being sold to you under the banner of “safety.”

The EU bureaucrats do not trust you.

They urgently want the infrastructure to surveil you.

And when its own Parliament votes the wrong way, the bureaucratic and anti-democratic machine simply finds another procedure and tries again.

The European Union is not protecting democracy.

It is becoming its enemy. And almost all CONSERVATIVES members of the parliament voted in favor of this Orwellian plan.

And now imagine a combination of governmental surveillance AND Palantir. SCARY!!!!

SHARE THIS. Europeans deserve to know what Brussels is doing to their privacy.

[Martin Sonneborn @MartinSonneborn]

Die erste (illegale) Abstimmung zur Chatkontrolle ist gerade durchgegangen - Donnerstag fällt im Plenum die endgültige Entscheidung, ob zukünftig ALLES, was Sie im Netz schreiben, gescannt wird…