Andrea

it’s not about right and left, it’s about right and wrong.

[Aurea @AureaLibe]

Je lance l’initiative Exit Chat Control.

https://t.co/GCt0vLw7YF

Ce site est un guide complet qui vise à répertorier tous les outils nécessaires pour contourner tout système de surveillance de vos messageries privées.

Le site est open source et sera amélioré en continu.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The global arms race is spiralling out of control — and the poorest people are paying the heaviest price.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Today is a dark day for freedom and democracy in Europe. General chat surveillance has been implemented in Brussels. A disgrace.

The so-called Chat Control 1.0 cleared a crucial hurdle in the European Parliament today. This means platforms may once again be allowed to scan private messages, officially on a “voluntary” basis, but in practice this marks the return of indiscriminate monitoring of private communication.

What makes this especially bitter is that a majority of the MEPs who voted were reportedly against it. According to Patrick Breyer, 314 MEPs voted against the regulation, 276 voted in favor and 17 abstained. And yet the rejection failed because it was not enough to have a simple majority of those voting. An absolute majority of all MEPs would have been required.

That is the democratic scandal.

When a majority of those present votes against a proposal and it still passes because a formal threshold is not reached, it does not feel like democratic decision-making to many citizens. It feels like a procedural trick.

And it becomes even more problematic when you look at the context: Chat Control had already been rejected before. Yet the issue was put back on the agenda shortly before the summer break, through an urgent procedure, at a time when absences could become decisive.

This is not just some technical regulation. It goes to the very core of private communication. It is about whether digital messages remain fundamentally private or whether platforms may systematically scan content again, without concrete suspicion, without a court order and without any individual cause.

A free society must not turn private communication into a potential surveillance zone. Anyone who takes digital fundamental rights seriously cannot accept millions of innocent people being placed under general suspicion.

Today, a dangerous signal was sent: fundamental rights can be hollowed out through procedural logic, timing and political tricks. Not through an open, clear and honest majority, but through a system in which absence effectively helps the supporters.

This is a dark day for Europe.

Not because the fight is over, but because today showed how easily digital fundamental rights come under pressure when surveillance logic, symbolic politics and institutional tricks come together.

Anyone who wants a free internet, anyone who wants to protect private communication and anyone who takes democracy seriously should talk about this.

Share this issue. Inform yourself. Look at who voted how. And never forget: freedom rarely disappears all at once. It disappears step by step, often in technical details, often in complicated procedures and often exactly when too few people are watching.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Steve Reed declares that transparency is important when it comes to political donations

The same Steve Reed who helped co-found Labour Together, the organisation which between 2017 and 2020 broke electoral law by deliberately not reporting £740,000 of donations.

[Julián Macías Tovar @JulianMaciasT]

Después de reunirse con la CIA y con Javier Negre lo único que le faltaba a Delcy Rodríguez es reunirse con Israel, pues lo ha hecho, Venezuela totalmente colonizada.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Police are investigating a donation that was given to [Jenricks] campaign.."

Jenrick, lest we forget, admitted that as a Tory govt minister he deliberately helped a Tory donor avoid £45m in tax by rushing through a housing development.

[FreeBrizeNorton6 @FreeBN5]

Today and tomorrow at the Old Bailey, two of the biggest Palestine Action trial and hearing are taking place: the Filton 25 and the Brize Norton 6.

Please come and mobilise in support of the defendants. Speakers below 👇

[@kennardmatt @andrewfeinstein @NidaJafri_]

*It is not illegal to support defendants on trial for PA related charges.

[The Iain Duncan Smiths @TheIDSmiths]

Seeing Kay heaping praise on Prince Andrew brought this to mind, and the "Analysis: Striding determinedly towards me" is even more batshit than I'd remembered

[Reginald D Hunter @reginalddhunter]

What de hell?!

[Kyle Ayers @kyleayers]

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

[Mrs Mop @MancMop]

@ScotNational @ligomersall When did we agree to our energy bills becoming another great big fucking tax?

[Adam Analysis @adamemedia1]

The amount of techno dystopian announcements in the past week is insane.

Facial recognition, internet passports, VPN bans, hidden trackers in our hardware.

They’re setting up the AI control grid in real time. That’s what all those data centers are for.

[Andrea @hepto1]

@The_Aftershock_ Thank god they got that danger off the streets

[The Aftershock @The_Aftershock_]

BREAKING: Uncle Said was arrested for disrupting the production of engines for Israeli killer drones in Elbit's weapons factory in Shenstone, Staffordshire.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🇪🇺 The EU is now for the 6th time trying to force Chat Control through which lets them scan ALL your private messages, photos and emails without a warrant

Implictly showing the EU is not democratic and not about what the people of Europe want, because once a law is rejected, you just re-submit it until nobody is watching and it's passed

November 2023: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
June 2024: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
October 2025: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
November 2025: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
March 2026: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
July 2026: 📝 Chat Control is back

Even the EU's own lawyers stated Chat Control is unconstitutional: "generalised message scanning is incompatible with Article 7 of the EU Charter"

You have to wonder why the EU is so adament about reading your private chats, right?

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

BREAKING: Pro-Palestine activists have disrupted a presentation by Werner Vogels, Amazon vice president and Chief Technology Officer, at the UN’s “AI for Good” summit in Switzerland.

Palestinian civil society strongly condemns the UN International Telecommunication Union’s shameful partnership with criminal tech companies in this summit, particularly Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Cisco, Oracle, and IBM. In providing cloud infrastructure and AI technologies to the Israeli war ministry, these companies are deeply complicit in Israel's military occupation, apartheid and genocide against Indigenous Palestinians.

Project Nimbus, the joint $1.22 billion contract between Google and Amazon signed in 2021, provides cloud and AI tech services to the Israeli government and the Israeli military. It enables the Israeli military to run deadly AI programs such as Lavender and Gospel — crucial to its ongoing, livestreamed genocide in Gaza.

We call for global pressure on the UN and its member States to end all UN partnership and contracts with these and similarly complicit corporations, and on Amazon and Google to drop their genocidal Project Nimbus.

[Fidias Panayiotou @Fidias0]

The EU Parliament REJECTED Chat Control, but now they are forcing us to vote it AGAIN to revive it. What kind of democracy is this if we're forced to vote on the same issue over and over until they get the result they want?

My colleague @MarketkaG explained the situation very well in plenary👇🏻

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

The "Global Food Crisis" is a myth. We have enough food. What we have is a "Distribution Monopoly." If a corporation can’t make a 40% margin on feeding the hungry, they’d rather let the grain rot in the silo than lower the price. Hunger is a market choice.

[Nizar_Gaza_🇵🇸 @nizar_almasre]

They killed him because he had prepared areas that were full of garbage, cleaned them up, and set up a large screen and chairs, making the area suitable so that the people of Gaza could watch the Egypt-Argentina match, to have some joy, to be like the people of the rest of the world. However, the occupation refused this and assassinated him.