This latest development in the EU parliament is eliciting widespread public outcry due to the nature of the law itself, but also due to the manner in which it happened. Critics and opponents of the rule are suggesting this move is unprecedented.
Chat Control 1.0 has already been shot down repeatedly, most recently in March. However, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola forced a second reading of the law, and invoked Rule 163's "urgent procedure" mechanism. This had many effects, including bringing up a law that was voted against for discussion yet again; turning the decision into a denial vote (vote-to-deny, not vote-to-pass); exploiting the second-reading requirement that demands an absolute majority vote (50% + 1); and letting the President herself set the schedule. Metsola scheduled the second reading to the very last day before the European Parliament summer recess.
The result was that out of 720 representatives, only 607 actually cast a vote. Of those, 315 (over half) voted against Chat Control 1.0. That figure did not meet the supermajority threshold of 361, which was calculated against a full chamber.
Opponents to Chat Control have posted resources at the Fight Chat Control website , including a breakdown of member-state and individual representative voting positions and contact information.
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kaalus You got it all terribly confused. Signal is not a CIA tool. It's a tool which CIA itself uses for communication. Although CIA allegedly has means to break into anyone's phone using zero-day exploits and snoop on the chat or voice data before it's even encrypted by applications such as Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal etc. Reply
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