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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

Ok,let's start scanning politicians and priests devices

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.

Europe sliding towards authoritarianism, while the far-right surge in the individual countries is still to manifest itself properly in the EU parliament. I cannot see this going well.

Fuuck this shit and my piece of shit country for supporting this idiocy.

All the more reason to use a VPN. We'll see what measures various apps will end up implementing.

I thought this had been blocked like, just a few weeks ago?

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.

Seeing as how we're the dickheads who suggested it, yes.

EU 📰 Release.