To save you a click, countries supporting the implementation: Spain, Romania, Portugal, Malta Lithuania, Hungary, Ireland, France, Denmark, Croatia, Cyprus, and Bulgaria.

Countries undecided: Belgium, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Slovakia, and Sweden.

Countries against: Slovenia, the Netherlands, Poland, Luxembourg, Germany, Estonia, Finland, the Czech Republic, and Austria

This is fucked.

I get the arguments about csam, but get a fucking warrant and do proper police work.

The carve out for politicians is the indicator that this is not about CSAM.

Just look at Epstein, he was buddies with a ton of politicians and this law would have protected all of them.

And how long until this gets expanded. “Oh, we have to catch football piracy”. “Now we have to scan to catch criminals and terrorists”. And soon it’s whatever politicians think threatens them. It’s too much power for anyone to have, even with a noble cause taped to the front.

I’m beyond disappointed in the list of countries supporting this.

Europe sliding towards authoritarianism, while the far-right surge in the individual countries is still to manifest itself properly in the EU parliament. I cannot see this going well.

Fuuck this shit and my piece of shit country for supporting this idiocy.

All the more reason to use a VPN. We’ll see what measures various apps will end up implementing.

Seeing as how we’re the dickheads who suggested it, yes.

EU 📰 Release.