Final call:
If you’re still interested, try to call your MEP’s office before 12.00 CEST (find “Supports” MEPs of your countries and their offices’s phone number on fightchatcontrol.eu) and at least ask them to consider opposing the urgent procedure trickery, so they are not forced into a rushed decision on an already expired and dismissed topic.
(Also consider including “Opposes” MEPs, they could have changed their stance or are able to speak to their colleagues.)
LAST TIME, IT HAS BEEN REJECTED BY ONE, YES, ONE SINGLE VOTE. EVERY CALL, EVERYTHING COUNTS.
The first iteration of Chat Control, commonly dubbed “Chat Control 1.0”, was ultimately rejected on March 26, 2026, following a vote that passed by one vote that rejected the extension of the regulation. However, later iterations of Chat Control, commonly dubbed “Chat Control 2.0”, are still under discussion.[6]
Right, but it was only accepted to grant an urgent procedure to make a vote happen this week.
Also, it was almost split 50/50, so half of our MEPs directly shut it down, be it only for its urgency request or being opposed altogether. IMO this shows there’s not much convincing needed.
People opposing it, make sure to get your voices heard before the vote on thursday via emailing or calling your MEP’s office (listed on fightchatcontrol.eu or searchable on the EU parliament’s website). If you don’t want to write a longer text, at least only tell them you are opposed for the many established downsides, like diverting ressources from already very successful prosecution efforts, or being inferior than directly educating the children in school.
(Also, a sad fact:
I did not check other group accounts yet, but the official X/Twitter account of the EPP group repeatedly spreads misinformation about the topic even bending an obscure 8/10 on their own graphic to "90%“, and earns comments exclusively against it. Will later add the other groups, if relevant.)
(Unfortunately) I’m from Germany, so it’s 96 again for me.
Edit: For those skipping the updates on the first post (worth checking out), I’d like to mention that of the stances of German MEPs listed on fightchatcontrol.eu, more than just the opposed ones have voted against the urgency procedure today.
I have not cross-referenced names. I only looked at their numbers.
(Which is why you should not just feel safe with an MEP listed as opposing and contact them as well.)
This could mean a stance change, or simply opposing the urgent procedure of it (which should have been in their interest).
Also: The European People’s Party group (a group is a coalition of parties across countries that share similar values), which I have previously mentioned as spreading and repeating misinformation on their X/Twitter (one of many aggressive tweets, this is one with the 8/10=90% twist), had by far the most supporters in today’s vote, with almost 100% of their members in favor.
Which would either mean an urgent need to convince them, or to give up on them altogether and to sway more supporting MEPs from the mixed parties to oppose it.
Edit2: As I have previously mentioned, I have now checked the Twitter accounts of the groups.
None of them make Chat Control a big deal, some of them even officially state that they want a real solution instead of it.
But man, only the EPP account mass-posts about protecting children vs protecting predators, sometimes multiple times per day…
Really hard to not insinuate ulterior motives when one is this aggressive…
Forefront of current Chat Control revival President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola, today’s microphone cutter of Martin Sonneborn’s during his argumentation on this procedure’s violations, taking a selfie with Ashton Kutcher, founding member of Thorn, a child protection non-profit and seller of scanning software, then still member of, March 2023:
Final day before the vote is due tomorrow.
If you can’t email your MEP in time, you may still try calling their office until the vote is happening.
For Germany, the votes against yesterdays urgent procedure were already higher than the last tracked vote on the matter.
On Parliament President Metsola cutting Sonneborn’s microphone during his speech on the violations of this procedure from the last comment:
It is according to the rules to only have a short amount of time (60 seconds?) for your speech, but its strict enforcement is supposedly rare and unusual.
Here is the YouTube link on MEP Sonneborn’s channel, an English audio track of the real-time translation is available.
Edit: There is a new template on fightchatcontrol.eu / fightchatcontrol.de that you can use. You can customize it and also copy all their addresses in the next step. This streamlines it even further, if you’re still hesitant about the work involved. I suggested a personal text, but at least use the template and show it is important to you.
Original comment:
If you are from Germany and want an easier time copying their email addresses, here is a raw list of all 96 German MEP addresses for copying into your email’s BCC field (keep in mind your provider might have limits for either BCC recipients or hourly/daily emails):
If you are from another country with a large list, you could help out by posting your addresses in this format using this:Not needed, you can copy your batch during the second step on fightchatcontrol.
[Delete both "\", they only keep this example block intact]
[details="CountryXYZ MEP emails"]
\```
xyz@europarl.europa.eu
\```
[/details]
More confrontation of EU Parliament President Metsola by Czech MEP Markéta Gregorová of the European Pirates, followed up by Metsola claiming to “do [her] job according to every single rule”, which both Gregorová and Sonneborn have shown not to be the case.
(Spoken English, only title and description Czech)
(Also, only 19½ hours until vote from posting this comment.)
It will most likely be passed. But important to note this is not the Chat Control 2.0 proposal which wanted to backdoor end-to-end encrypted chats. This is the 1.0 proposal for the mass scanning of unencrypted (no E2EE) messages.
It even has been active until the beginning of april this year, when it expired, following a vote days prior that shut its extension down.
Now is the biggest chance for the supporting MEPs to force it through, or beat it through, as Sonneborn put it.
The thing is, it only got shut down very narrowly last time (one vote), and it seems since then 100% of the EPP (usually conservative parties) minus only 3 MEPs (2 abstentions and 1 opposition) have banded together. Since the EPP group is the biggest group in the parliament, almost 100% from them in favor is a tall order (and also very questionable how much personal opinion is left in there at this rate).
What makes it even more difficult: It can only be avoided by an absolute majority now (more than half of all elegible voters). Metsola’s urgent push just before summer recess, especially since tomorrow is the last day, means that a lot of MEPs are already on vacation.
So her initiative even exploits that a lot of voters are not even present, which means their absence even benefits her.
So yeah, we even need a significant amount of votes from yesterday’s votes in favor of the urgent procedure.
Since then, I’m sure a lot more emails have reached the MEPs, some press outlets even reported on the trickery behind it, maybe convincing other MEPs to vote against it.
Another point I thought of, maybe someone knows the technical side better:
Will such a system only be able to report hashes or something? Or would it be able to even send the material to local authorities for revision?
I imagine there would be safeguards, but even then, imagine a private company being informed that there are nudes of your child on their system. Would it not take only one rogue employee to get access to these files?
