Comment by palata

> What good did the EU bring

The EU is pushing the member countries e.g. regarding climate change. Not that it is enough, but it is something.

Also the EU tries to do some privacy stuff, antitrust (when it doesn't get bullied by the US), etc.

I feel like ChatControl is really about some lobbyists making a lot of noise and politicians not competent to understand how cryptography works. People say "that's because the ruling class wants surveillance over the citizens", but I believe it's incompetence. Just like the "ruling class" doesn't want to screw humanity by not addressing climate change and the current mass extinction: they are just not competent enough to understand the problem.

And that's the reflection of the people who elect them. Go in the street and ask random people what they understand about E2EE. In good approximation, they have no idea how it works. Worse: they don't give a damn. How would they elect people who are competent about it?