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EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you (www.patrick-breyer.de)
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Chat Control didnt pass - they didnt even vote because they were afraid the result would be embarassing.

And we got told so many times, that EU now wants Chat Control. But it was a big fat lie.

EU is a democracy with different opinions, and when a small group of facists tries to read your chats, it does not represent the EU opinion.

But the whole media got you thinking so. Proving even on Lemmy, you and me are extremly prone to propaganda.

I quoted the article here with the news:

In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU’s controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure.

The government did not take a position on the proposal.

This blocks the required majority in the EU Council, derailing the plan to pass the surveillance law next week.

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[–] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 143 points 2 days ago (4 children)

What kind of shit take is this?

Media made people aware of ongoing bullshit, people reacted and put pressure on their governments and somehow "media got to us"?

If anything it didn't pass because of media attention.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, keeping the public in the dark so people against it aren't there to voice their opinion is how these like this get passed. Media attention to inform the public was a good thing.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

What kind of shit take is this?

The lemmy.ml kind, check OP’s profile

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 days ago

The kind of shit is called "ignoring dynamics and transient processes".

[–] Highlandcow@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago

That's what I thought, OP if nobody believed the news and there was no pressure chat control might of passed