Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0") to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor,
I checked my own country’s MEP voting record and this shit was entirely done by the mainstream parties - even the far-right (to my surprise) tried to stop it.
If you think about it, it makes sense that those entrenched in power are the ones more interested in mass surveilance and other forms or early detection of dissent, and in most of Europe the far-right are not in power, they’re the challengers and it’s the mainstream parties (generally two of them, thanks to anti-Democratic non-PV voting systems) which alternate in power.
I checked my own country’s MEP voting record and this shit was entirely done by the mainstream parties - even the far-right (to my surprise) tried to stop it.
If you think about it, it makes sense that those entrenched in power are the ones more interested in mass surveilance and other forms or early detection of dissent, and in most of Europe the far-right are not in power, they’re the challengers and it’s the mainstream parties (generally two of them, thanks to anti-Democratic non-PV voting systems) which alternate in power.