• chigga@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      this is the real thing, this is almost certainly unconstitutional.

      greedy corps going against law as usual.

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        No, not really. It’s because they retracted the proposal before going to vote, because they knew it wouldnt pass after Germany publicly said they would vote against.

        Then they changed some stuff and send it again, which is now rejected as it seems.

        Now they need to wait, but they didnt before.

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      3 months ago

      i don’t understand, was EPP for or against the extension ? Cause my understanding was that they asked to have a second vote even if the first one already rejected the extension.

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      as regards the extension of its period of application

      does it mean that this vote was only about the extension of the regulation that allowed voluntary participation in scanning for chat providers?

      honestly, that’s the lesser of the worries, we know facebook and fo are scanning all messages going through them no matter what

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        That sounds kinda reasonable then. If the company has access to the chat logs in plain text, they should probably be scanning it for CSAM. Though the use of AI to identify it is concerning, given the low accuracy. And I guess there’s also the risk of communications with someone’s doctor being flagged.

        On reflection it’s still a dumb law.

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      Thats actually insane in itself that it got that close. Next time they will succeed. :/

      People are so stupid to support this. They dont seem to understand that its never about protecting anyone and its always about building dystopia.

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      it’s indicative of the system we’re in. our oligarchs have enough money to pay people to push for this in perpetuity while the rest of us are forced to give up some degree of our lives to fight it off on a field of battles that’s tilted towards money; they will win eventually unless the system itself is changed.

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    Good, but pretty meaningless overall while they still allow lobbying to take place.

    They pretend to care that lobbying means corruption from corporate interests, but doing anything meaningful to stop lobbying entirely and punish anyone still doing it would be “authoritarian communism” now, wouldn’t it?