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Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy

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568 points layer8 | 3 comments | 30 Oct 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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honkostani ◴[30 Oct 25 23:20 UTC] No.45766581[source]▶
Its like a ocean wave, crashing against the cliff, year in, year out, proposal after proposal, waiting for that final atrocity, justifying pushing it through. The white cliffs of Dover, with no plan on how to regain one day that land, once the crisis subsides. And no mechanism to prevent a permanent crisis, because the controls justify the manufacturing of endless crisis.
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layer8 ◴[30 Oct 25 23:31 UTC] No.45766672[source]▶
Well, we do have the ECJ as a corrective: https://ccdcoe.org/incyder-articles/eu-data-retention-direct...
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St0n3d ◴[30 Oct 25 23:55 UTC] No.45766869[source]▶
Unfortunately the ECJ’s orders aren’t strictly followed and they recently pretty much indicated they could support an atrocious law like ProtectEU. Perhaps to save face.
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1. layer8 ◴[31 Oct 25 00:03 UTC] No.45766912[source]▶
Courts are always the last line of defense, there is no way of avoiding that. Rights are never absolute, but have to be balanced against each other, and the courts are the arbiter of that.

Aside from that, raising public awareness like the Chat Control initiative did is the way to go. And voting in the EU Parliament elections.

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2. wkat4242 ◴[31 Oct 25 01:07 UTC] No.45767290[source]▶
Yes it is the way to go but politicians get fatigued because they keep pushing the same thing so often. Also the lobbyists have big bags of money to throw at it.
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3. honkostani ◴[31 Oct 25 08:16 UTC] No.45769494[source]▶
If you do not tax cooperate income away, or at least force them by law to bind it in investments, it will attack the surrounding containment vessel of laws and culture.