đȘđș The EU just passed Chat Control 1.0 in Brussels.
Platforms can now scan your private messages again, officially "voluntary," in practice blanket surveillance.
Here's the democratic scandal: 314 MEPs voted against it. Only 276 voted for it.
It passed anyway... because an absolute majority of all MEPs was required to reject it, not just a majority of those present.
More people voted no than yes. It still passed.
Pushed through on an urgent procedure just before summer recess, when absences are highest and attention is lowest.
This is how rights disappear folks. Not in one dramatic moment, but in procedural fine print, on a slow news day, while everyone's looking at Tehran.
Source: @Fidias0 / Writer: Oliver
BREAKING:
The European Parliament just passed Chat Control 1.0
A proposal to stop the new law, which will allow big tech companies to voluntarily scan all private messages, needed an absolute majority of 361 voted but received only 314 votes.
As it was the last day before summer recess, many MEPs had returned to their home countries and didnât take part in the surprise vote. Chat Control 2.0 is still being prepared. That law will make it mandatory to scan peopleâs private messages.