A sea lion in Argentina climbed onto a fishing vessel, found a bed, and passed out.
The fishermen only realized it when they heard loud snoring.
Guess they've got a new deckhand. π
The EU Parliament voted 311 to 228 in March to kill Chat Control.
Parliament rejected it.
Dead.
Expired April 3.
The Councilβs own lawyers said it violates the right to privacy under EU law.
Signal said they would leave Europe rather than scan messages.
WhatsApp said the same.
500 cryptographers signed an open letter calling it dangerous.
Everyone said no.
Yesterday the EU Council brought it back anyway.
Using a second reading procedure that requires Parliament to find 361 absolute votes to kill it again.
That threshold is almost impossible to hit.
The Parliament voted 311 against.
Now they need 361 against.
The Council used a procedure that has no clear precedent in EU history.
Roberta Metsola, the President of Parliament, is helping push it through.
Even though Parliament she leads already rejected it.
The vote is Thursday.
If it passes platforms must scan every message before encryption happens.
Hash-matching against known databases.
Machine learning for unknown material.
Real-time text analysis for grooming patterns.
All warrantless.
All without judicial oversight.
All catching innocent people at 13-20 percent false positive rates.
Millions of flags per day in the EU.
All of it.
The Parliament said no.
The Council heard no.
Scheduled a vote Thursday anyway.
The rules of democracy do not apply when the outcome is predetermined.