EU Presidency led initiative to revive Chat Control 1.0: Reinstated again until 2028, people's efforts still showed noticeable effect

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Votes are public. Besides the official website of the parliament, they get tracked more conveniently on mepwatch.eu or on howtheyvote.eu.
I don’t have a link yet, but they should update soon and I will add one.

Edit: Here’s the vote on howtheyvote.eu.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but as this is a “Proposition de rejet” (Proposal for rejection), you’ll have to look at it inversely, no?

(And wouldn’t the total bar be unintentionally misleading?)

That should mean a vote in favor is a vote to reject it, if I understood correctly.

This would be also why a absolute majority would have been needed, as absent MEPs count as not rejecting it, am I wrong?

If not, this would be the aforementioned major gambit of Metsola&Co, meaning claiming these missing votes for them through a loophole.

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Article by Patrick Breyer:

Dumb question maybe, but when they say they scan “communication”, what is that actually referring to? Is it just person-to-person chats? Or also forum posts, comment sections or what else?

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Right, should have read it more carefully :person_facepalming:

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Read the bill to understand that it subjects companies to implement more processes and spend more money. Showing proof of intent from a press release pictures is certainly a choice. I doubt that Google and especially Apple wanted this, only Zuckerberg’s sister could’ve influenced him so it’s 1/3 for me.

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I have only linked MEP Sonneborn’s post on X and translated it to closely resemble its tone while being mostly verbatim.

Sure, companies would spend more money, but are also enabled to source more data from this.
Before, they were not allowed (i.e. not only not financially incentivized), and now they can do it on a voluntary base.
As it stands, everyone of them is affected; Google with Gmail, Apple in at least parts of iMessage and Meta with Facebook.

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I posted the link to the vote on howtheyvote in my previous comment, as well as how it is presumably to be interpreted.

Here is the link from mepwatch.

Important:
I think, as this is a “Proposition de rejet” (Proposal for rejection), you’ll have to look at the votes inversely.

A vote in favor is a vote against Chat Control.

This was probably done by Metsola&Co to utilize all absentees’ missing votes against the rejection.

Edit: Wait, did Tuesday’s 331/304/11 turn into today’s 276/314/17?!

Do I interpret these correctly?
This would mean a big change, if we assume Tuesday’s vote as actual positions.

If the absentees would have been split similarly, it could have been narrowly won, despite the odds and the trickery.

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Man, this doesn’t bode well for the Ireland presidency

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There is a bizarre (and annoyingly increasing) trend in online discourse for Europeans to blame all their problems on the U.S.

I don’t think that sentiment is really popular IRL, but it’s becoming malignant online.

The EU did this to itself. It was not US tech companies.

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If you’re interested in a visual representation of your country’s national party distribution:

  • go to https://mepwatch.eu/10/vote.html?v=195775
  • scroll to the second bar chart “%MEP"
  • find the bar with your country’s code and click on the bar
  • a bar chart above it now appears with the national parties

Example with Germany:
As you can see, all parties 100% opposed besides the conservative CDU/CSU and Family Party, who 100% supported Chat Control 1.0 (alongside almost 100% of their associated European People’s Party group relatives):

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I have to say, I’m pretty happy about the German votes.
Of course the related CDU and CSU banded together to support it, with chancellor Merz of the CDU a vehement supporter, probably afraid to show weakness by infighting in current national politcal climate.

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