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Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured

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1121 points xyzal | 2 comments | 11 Sep 25 08:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.562s | source
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ManBeardPc ◴[11 Sep 25 09:27 UTC] No.45209514[source]▶
Glad we could delay it for now. It will come back again and again with that high of support though. Also the German Bundestag is already discussing a compromise: https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-1108356. They are only unhappy with certain points like breaking encryption. They still want to destroy privacy and cut back our rights in the name of "safety", just a little less.
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uyzstvqs ◴[11 Sep 25 09:55 UTC] No.45209691[source]▶
The bigger issue is that we need to make the EU actually democratic. Start by removing every branch but the European Parliament. That's the only solution.
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Xelbair ◴[11 Sep 25 12:42 UTC] No.45210877[source]▶
Or just make European Commission be directly elected in such system:

- candidate needs to be proposed in country

- EU wide elections are held, candidates can only gather votes outside of their own country.

- Votes are weighted by amount of seats in EU parliament.

What we have right now does not work at all, EC has 0 responsibility(towards EU citizens) for their own actions and is basically a magical black box.

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1. cuu508 ◴[11 Sep 25 12:56 UTC] No.45211013[source]▶
> candidates can only gather votes outside of their own country

Few people would do the homework of researching hundreds of candidates from other countries.

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2. Xelbair ◴[11 Sep 25 13:47 UTC] No.45211614[source]▶
They represent whole of EU, and by EC's words they focus on interests beyond benefit of their own countries so they already have to do that. in theory at least.