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”.

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    80·
    6 months ago

    Find the politicians by name who voted yes for this, and display them in public.

    Let the capable open source community then take over going through their phones, since they must be OK with their phones being scanned, right?

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      6 months ago

      At least some of them were discussion giving themselves an exception from it. So no.

    • zaphod@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      First of all it was in the council, so not really individual politicians but the governments/ministers of member countries, and second they didn’t vote, it was withdrawn.

      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        We got lucky this time. Won’t be the case next time.

        Also, even if it’s entire governments voting, there must be a way to find politicians who are pro and against this, yes? Pretty sure governments had an internal vote and they came up with their decision based on said vote

        • zaphod@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          I’d assume people already know who their government is and who of them favours policies like this.