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inglor_cz ◴[] No.45209432[source]
Yesss.

It seems that public pressure pays off.

During the first iterations of Chat Control, I was pretty much the first source (a poor blogger with about ten thousand irregular readers!!) that wrote about it in Czech. It was surreal to break news on something THAT important (and blatantly unconstitutional in Czechia), while all the bigger media just slept ... and slept ... and slept ... Almost bizarre, I felt as if I was watching news from a parallel universe where that thing just does not exist.

The latest round was already much better covered by the media, including the publicly paid TV and radio. It took them three years, but they noticed. It was also more discussed on the Internet. Slovakia flipped its position precisely due to grassroots pressure.

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1. sunaookami ◴[] No.45209803[source]
German public broadcaster published a commentary last year after Chat Control was blocked saying that "child safety needs to wait" and lamenting that it didn't get through. Absolutely horrifying how much distance the media has from the people.