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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.
The EU Parliament voted 311 to 228 in March to kill Chat Control.
Parliament rejected it.
Dead.
Expired April 3.
The Council’s 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.
🚨🇪🇺The European Parliament has just voted IN FAVOR of ending freedom of speech!
The EU will now crush citizens’ privacy pushed through Chat Control!
Brussels will be able to massively scan private messages and legalize the monitoring of citizens’ communications.