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The post leverages a controversial and widely discussed topic (EU's "Chat Control") to generate engagement. By presenting multiple perspectives and news sources, it taps into public concern and encourages discussion and sharing among users interested in privacy and digital rights.
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This post compiles screenshots from social media discussing the EU's "Chat Control" legislation, which proposes monitoring citizens' private messages. It highlights concerns about privacy violations and censorship, including a YouTube video critical of the law being banned in some countries.
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European Union passes Chat Control legislative proposal that allows the monitoring of citizens' private messages, emails, images, and files until April 2028.
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Countries where a YouTube video critizing EU's Chat Control has been banned.
Video: EU ja CSAM: "Isoveli valvoo sinua" (Peter Sund) I Puheenaaihe 570
Mario Nawfal @MarioNa...
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The EU just passed Chat Control 1.0 in Brussels.
Platforms can now scan your private messages again, officially "voluntary," in practice blanket surveillance.
Here's the democratic scandal: 314 MEPs voted against it. Only 276 voted for it.
It passed anyway... because an absolute majority of all MEPs was required to reject it, not just a majority of those present.
More people voted no than yes. It still passed.
Pushed through on an urgent procedure just before summer recess, when absences are highest and attention is lowest.
This is how rights disappear folks. Not in one dramatic moment, but in procedural fine print, on a slow news day, while everyone's looking at Tehran.
Source: @Fidias0 / Writer: Oliver