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Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy

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569 points layer8 | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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FinnKuhn ◴[30 Oct 25 23:07 UTC] No.45766467[source]▶
> The last chance for an agreement under Danish leadership is in December; the government in Copenhagen apparently preferred a compromise without chat control to no agreement at all. The current regulation, which allows the large platform providers to voluntarily and actively search for potential depictions of abuse, expires next spring after extension. It is precisely this voluntariness that Denmark's Minister of Justice now wants to codify within the framework of the future CSA regulation, which also contains a multitude of other, less controversial projects. [1]

Doesn't sound like it is over yet - only delayed.

[1] https://www.heise.de/en/news/Denmark-surprisingly-abandons-p...

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ericd ◴[31 Oct 25 00:03 UTC] No.45766914[source]▶
The "Yes"/"Maybe Later" school of governance.
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vkou ◴[31 Oct 25 00:43 UTC] No.45767154[source]▶
That is the only way to run a government.

Consider for a moment what a government of "Yes"/"No Forever, without ever revisiting the question" would result in.

We aren't at the end of history.

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1. 4bpp ◴[31 Oct 25 03:26 UTC] No.45768059[source]▶
The problem is that for government power expansions/individual rights reductions, "Yes" can in fact be taken to mean "Yes forever, without ever revisiting the question". (The mechanism needn't be that there is literally no formal revisiting; it can be sufficient that weakening government power is politically untenable because whoever proposed it will be held accountable for every subsequent bad event that could hypothetically have been prevented with some unknown additional amount of government power.)

Stasis is not great, but surely preferable to an authoritarian ratchet.