Comment by greatgib
2 days ago
Just to be clear, here you see the EU, but behind this there are a few corrupt national government officials that are pushing hard for this.
2 days ago
Just to be clear, here you see the EU, but behind this there are a few corrupt national government officials that are pushing hard for this.
But hundreds voted?
314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions
Let's be honest, like for national assemblies, lots of members of the parliament are quite dumb.
I think most of them will not even look at the biggest part of the laws they are supposed to vote. They will vote for whatever they are told to vote for by the party or carefully crafted lobbying.
For something like chat control, you don't see it but there are probably a dozen lobbyist that went to see them in turn, feeding lies and propaganda that they will not challenge because they have other "important" political subjects they are busy looking at.
The commission is leading the game with lots of tricks like what was done here to get what they want in the end.
Just look at the fact that very very few of member even realized or complained to have been played fool by the last vote.
And I mean that it is wonderful already that some many members did the right choice (and I hope because they understood the issue and not because they were told to vote this), but it is crazy that so many still voted in favor.
And who knows, maybe a lot of them didn't even understand the question and were thinking that the "no" was "no to chat control", but here it goes back to my initial point that they are dumb enough to be easily manipulated by the commission members.