*EU Chat Control extension is an insult to democracy*
Thomas Fazi
On Thursday, the European Parliament “adopted”
<https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/07/10/chat-control-10-passed-the-european-parliament-through-the-back-door>
the extension of Chat Control 1.0. This is the temporary suspension of
the EU’s ePrivacy rules that allows tech platforms to mass-scan
citizens’ private communications, ostensibly to detect child sexual
abuse material. “Adopted” is placed in quotation marks here because the
word implies something that conspicuously failed to happen: a majority
of MEPs voting in favour. In fact, 314 MEPs voted to reject the text,
against 276 in favour. And yet it passed anyway.
This was made possible through a procedural sleight of hand worthy of
Brussels at its most cynical. The file was rammed through under an
“urgency procedure”: European Parliament President Roberta Metsola
unilaterally reopened a dossier that MEPs had already rejected in March,
and the Council conveniently bounced it back at the start of the summer
recess, when securing attendance is hardest. Rejecting it a second time
would have required not a simple majority but an absolute one: 360
votes. The law was therefore approved despite a majority of MEPs voting
against it. The regulation will now remain in force until April 2028,
buying time for negotiations on its even more ambitious successor, Chat
Control 2.0.
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continua qui:
https://unherd.com/newsroom/eu-chat-control-extension-is-an-insult-to-democracy/
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