European Commission's Metsola Overrides MEPs to Force Through Chat Control (opens in new tab)

Guess who is funding and lobbying this?

Robert Metsola met Ashton Kutcher (co-founder of Thorn, which develops message scanning tech) in March 2023 and posted a photo on Instagram. Kutcher lobbied MEPs hard in favour of strong detection measures.

We're moving towards total surveillance slowly but surely. Age verification. Chat control. To an extent also the digital euro. It all seems hopeless, they're pushing this through despite what semblance of a democratic process we have clearly being against it. [that is not to speak of how undemocratic the european system is and how badly it needs reform. Von der leyen should never have been able to get the role she holds]

This is one of the main reasons UK left EU.

National politicians use the EU to bypass national democracy and then blame the EU publicly to deflect of their true involvement.

Uk was a leading EU country via being one of the largest financial contributors, and UK was behind many of the decisions they later blamed on 'EU Bureaucrats'.

So if I get this right all she can force is conciliation, which needs the parliament to agree on it in third reading anyway?

Original title: President vs Parliament: Metsola overrides MEPs in bid to force through child abuse law

Content from TFA:

> Ambassadors on Friday will consider an “invitation of the President of the European Parliament [to] proceed with the Council’s first reading position” on the proposal to allow tech companies to choose to scan for CSAM

> The European Commission proposed the temporary CSAM bill as a stopgap measure to allow companies to scan while legislators agreed on a more permanent solution.

> Tech firms continued to scan, despite the legal limbo.

> If capitals choose to adopt their position, the law does not automatically pass: The Parliament would need to either accept it or re-enter negotiations. “There is no certainty that [the Parliament] would adopt the legislative act in second reading in line with the Council’s first reading position,” Cyprus wrote in the note.

> Gregorová rejected the suggestion that lawmakers would budge. “The Parliament mandate is clear: A majority voted it down, meaning that we reject the extension.”

With democracies like this, who needs dictators?

Her, Kaja Kallas and Ursula Von Der Lien ... who is the fourth horsewoman of the stupidocalypse?

I am shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED!

Slipping in censorship under the "think of the children" pretext is so cliché, I am not sure how EU thought this is going to convince anyone.

The EU is destroying the decentralization that once made Europe the global apex of freedom, equality and prosperity, and turning Europe into a bloated, schlerotic and authoritarian bureaucracy like the Chinese and Ottoman empires that it once defeated.