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Europe Votes Against Thought-Policing 'Chat Control', Brussels Passes It Anyway...
Europe Votes Against Thought-Policing 'Chat Control', Brussels Passes It Anyway...
On Thursday in Strasbourg, 314 Members of the European Parliament voted to reject the return of "Chat Control," the legal regime allowing tech companies to scan the private messages of roughly half a billion Europeans.
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Only 276 voted to keep it.
So naturally, the scanning regime won - thanks to a 'quirky' voting procedure in Brussels that allowed legislation to survive even though most MEPs who cast a vote opposed it. That should alarm anyone who still believes the word "parliament"...
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