🚨 #CHATCONTROL FAILS AGAIN 🚨
🟢 AGAINST (9):
🇦🇹 Austria · 🇧🇪 Belgium · 🇨🇿 Czechia · 🇫🇮 Finland · 🇩🇪 Germany · 🇱🇺 Luxembourg · 🇳🇱 Netherlands · 🇵🇱 Poland · 🇸🇰 Slovakia
🔴 IN FAVOR (14):
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · 🇭🇷 Croatia · 🇨🇾 Cyprus · 🇩🇰 Denmark · 🇫🇷 France · 🇭🇺 Hungary · 🇮🇪 Ireland · 🇮🇹 Italy · 🇱🇻 Latvia · 🇱🇹 Lithuania · 🇲🇹 Malta · 🇵🇹 Portugal · 🇪🇸 Spain · 🇸🇪 Sweden
🟡 UNDECIDED (4):
🇪🇪 Estonia · 🇬🇷 Greece · 🇷🇴 Romania · 🇸🇮 Slovenia
👉 The proposal reintroduced by 🇩🇰 Denmark under its EU presidency (July 2025) has failed for the third time
💥 With Germany and Luxembourg joining the opposition, a blocking minority was formed (at least 4 States + 35% of EU population)
📌 Result: no agreement, no vote in October.
Even if Denmark tries again, Europe has once more resisted this absurdity
I am very sorry to hear about Hytale. Scope creep is no laughing matter. This is a good time to remind ourselves of what we're making, and why we're making it.
The hard work of hundreds has been ruined by overambitious and misguided leadership many times before.
ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (TS: 24 Jun 10:50 UTC)
It's quite simple, Senator: if you're more upset at the whistleblower than you are at the lawbreaking they revealed, you're not in a position to be questioning anybody's judgment.
A major blocker to free and open source multimedia is @isostandards.
ISO standards are behind an expensive paywall, making them impossible to access for volunteer developers in FFmpeg, or anyone wanting to learn about multimedia technology