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[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.

[jo @soofki]

the need for pokopia transcends language

[dan @danxgms]

que quelqu'un fasse un émulateur switch 2 et vite

[jo @soofki]

I just saw a 5070ti listed for almost $3600, what a time to be alive

[sudox @kmcnam1]

Sloppers who have AI generate art for them now complaining about people stealing their prompts has to be the most ironic and funniest outrage I've seen all decade

[GOON MASTER SOPHONT SIMP @SOPHONTSIMP]

If this disturbs you it’s worth remembering that the majority of pigs alive today go through treatment very similar to this, with the only difference being they’re fully capable of consciousness and suffering while it happens.

[antonio @privtonio]

straight up animal abuse and yall wondering if you're too woke

[100 Climate Messages @climatemessages]

WE NEED TO SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF.

[alex 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @cxmeterydrivx]

non-slavic people thinking this is a shitpost and not real lmao😭😭

[jo @soofki]

@ChroniclerCasts basically everyone called it but also pls stop 🥀

[NUL @NULobbyist]

Our species has fucking schizophrenia

[Itonia🍅 @radish_cat]

THE SIBLING OF HOLLOWNEST
#hollowknight

[jo @soofki]

I keep looking at it and I still don't see what could possibly justify the price, is it just disney tax

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The new LEGO Death Star has been officially revealed.

Will cost $999.99

[dani devito 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @carmyberzattos]

everything about this horrified me but the woman saying everything went fine with her second surrogate when she in fact had to have an emergency hysterectomy to save her life that chilled me to the core

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨BREAKING :A video documents a horrific Israeli crime: targeting ambulance and civil defense crews as they were rescuing victims and the wounded after Israel bombed Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis among them was journalist Hossam al-Masri.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

This should be the top headline at every major news outlet.

[Financial Times @FT]

Israel kills famous Al Jazeera reporter in Gaza https://t.co/yIRBNcX61B

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Unreal. Awdah Hathaleen, who worked on Oscar-winning film “No Other Land,” filmed himself being killed by Israeli settler Yinon Levi.

Levi was freed from house arrest because judge said there was no “causal connection” between him shooting & Awdah’s death

[Kăskă (she/her)🏳️‍⚧️ @KaskaJessica]

The new "adult human chicken" meme has dropped, JK Rowling edition.

[Crimson @sanestlyneyfan]

the reply section omg😭😭😭

[jo @soofki]

getting jumpscared by voltron in the big 2025, can I ever experience peace