End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance

Post by geon » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 12:50 PM UTC

wolvoleo wrote: post #316

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Yes. I would place it on the authority–liberty axis. While your examples were on the economic left, they were clearly authoritarian.

Yes. I'm very socialist on an economic scale but very liberal on the social scale. It basically embodies what we call progressive these days. Conservatism has redefined itself too. Capitalist on the economic scale, authoritarian on the social one. When it comes to topics like lgbt, abortion, religion, family they don't want freedom. They want to have only the freedom to think like them. That's what we call authoritar…

Post by izacus » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 7:06 AM UTC

Zak wrote: post #257

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #229

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> further procedural steps by EU governments cannot be completely ruled out In a democracy, we don't kill our opposition. If they hold views we don't like, e.g. that security trumps privacy, they're going to litigate them. Probably their whole lives. That means they'll keep bringing up the same ideas. And you'll have to keep defeating them. But there are two corollaries. One: Passing legislation takes as much work as…

It seems to me that "no and don't ask again" should be a possible outcome of a vote on proposed legislation. Without going into full detail on the procedure I'm imagining, such an outcome would bar consideration of equivalent legislation for several years and require a supermajority at several stages of the legislative process to override.