Ok,let’s start scanning politicians and priests devices
they are explicitly excluded, right?
Ding ding ding
To save you a click, countries supporting the implementation: Spain, Romania, Portugal, Malta Lithuania, Hungary, Ireland, France, Denmark, Croatia, Cyprus, and Bulgaria.
Countries undecided: Belgium, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Slovakia, and Sweden.
Countries against: Slovenia, the Netherlands, Poland, Luxembourg, Germany, Estonia, Finland, the Czech Republic, and Austria
This is fucked.
I get the arguments about csam, but get a fucking warrant and do proper police work.
The carve out for politicians is the indicator that this is not about CSAM.
Just look at Epstein, he was buddies with a ton of politicians and this law would have protected all of them.
And how long until this gets expanded. “Oh, we have to catch football piracy”. “Now we have to scan to catch criminals and terrorists”. And soon it’s whatever politicians think threatens them. It’s too much power for anyone to have, even with a noble cause taped to the front.
I’m beyond disappointed in the list of countries supporting this.
Also, will not stop csam.
I thought this had been blocked like, just a few weeks ago?
Luckily they can just keep proposing it nonstop until everyone is burnt out from constantly fighting it while also working a day job.
When you base coordination on violent enforcement, tyranny is inevitable. You have a mechanism for crushing opposition aglnd silencing the population that is not just built in but essential, even definitional, to the functioning of the thing.
Even aside from all the absolute fucking pandoras box of moral hazards and perverse incentives this creates, just running it long enough will eventually cause this shit to accrue, like a windows install.
States are not a good solution.
The people need to fight it every time it pops up. It only needs a passing vote one time.
Now it’s too late.
Well, your politicians have names and addresses. Ask them to fix this.
While they’re sleeping.
I think this is a misleading article and headline.
My understanding is that the proposal has now been officially approved and suggested by the EU Council (one of the bodies that can ask the EU Commission to present/draft a law)
It now goes on to the EU Commission who will analyze the proposal and potentially draft a law. However, AFAIK they can also stop the proposal at this stage.
If the EU Commission decides to draft a law and it then needs to be approved by the EU Parliament and EU Council (again). Only at this point does it become law.
