They are currently voting on amends to the regulation. The “Chat Control” proposal would legalise scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and digital security for all EU citizens.
What is going on here with the German social democrats (SPD) voting in favor of chat control and the conservative “christian” party (CDU) against it?
It seems to be the case in most other countries. I don’t get it either. I can only think that those barely left from center parties are all falling for the “gotta protect the kids against all evil by removing all anonymity”. But all those right parties… Are they against chat control? Since when? Or is it the wrong kind of chat control for them? Don’t get it at all, but well, at least this crap was rejected (until the next time they try again).
Exactly the same with the Portuguese parties. The conservative PSD voted against (like “Pirates”), and the socialist PS voted in favour (like the polish “PiS”). I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!
And PP and PSOE too
The SPD is social democrat in name only, in reality, since the first Schröder government, they have been a cheap CDU copy.
And when it comes to supporting authoritarian bullshit, they do have a long history. In the early days of Weimar Republic, the Ebert government did collaborate with far-right paramilitary groups in order to quell unrest. (Using machine guns on striking workers and murdering leaders of opposing political movements)
most socalist governments like mine (Spain’s) vote in favour of these kind of stuff. They want more control, not less lol. And believe it or not, most right wing parties that usually are somewhat nationalist, tend to believe their own people deserve privacy or media freedom or whatever, no matter what other countries think
Ehh, those countries aren’t proper socialist in my book. More like centrists that are happy with the status quo and unwilling to enact social reforms necessary to properly adress the rising inequality.
German Social Democrats are actual vegetables. They don‘t think. They just do what they‘re told. I genuinely forget they exist sometimes. It feels like this country is ruled by conservatives and no one else.