The EU Council and its participants have decided to withdraw the vote on the contentious Chat Control plan proposed by Belgium, the current EU President.

Moritz Körner, Member of the European Parliament, disclosed the decision on Twitter. Swedish publisher SVG said, “The question was removed at the last moment from Thursday’s ambassadorial meeting in Brussels”.

  • LordCrom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1141·
    5 months ago

    They are just delaying the vote for another time… Hoping that next time it will fly under the radar and there won’t be a huge backlash of discontent.

    If the vote fail, they just wait a year, rename it, and try again.

    Same thing happens in the US. Law proposed that people hate, people organize, start a campaign that fights for news airtime, bringing awareness of the dickery about to happen, and then succeed after a hard battle and many many volunteer hours spent.

    In 6 months Congress just renames it the “I love kittens” act and sticks it on a must pass bill.

    Fighting bullshit laws is exhausting…

    • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      241·
      5 months ago

      Don’t be surprise if it reappears as an attachment to a fishing quota law or a law defining sizes for underwear…

      • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        it reappears as an attachment to a fishing quota law or a law defining sizes for underwear

        Sounds very Putin.

        • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          Actually, this is a common occurance in the US and EU. One of the previous, court-captured laws actually was riding with fishing quota regulations.

          • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            5 months ago

            Yeah, Putin doesn’t have to hide anything because nobody is allowed to object to any crazy laws he invents.

      • cows_are_underrated@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        16·
        5 months ago

        Idk about the EU(there have been cases that were exactly this, an example would be Article 13), but I can say to you, that this devinetively happens in Germany. Our conservatives party wants to pass a law, that would track and save all your online activity(Vorratsdatenspeicherung/ data preservation) to fight “paedophiles and terrorists” they bring it up once in a while, even tho, our federal court already said, that its illegal.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Hungary will take the EU presidency, they just name it “child protection” and will smear everyone as a pedophile who objects it.