Moritz Körner, Member of the European Parliament, disclosed the decision on Twitter. Swedish publisher SVG said, “The question was removed at the last moment from Thursday’s ambassadorial meeting in Brussels”.

  • melroy
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    Actually it was the Left wing that mainly voted yes for this. Just saying.

    • PonyOfWar
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      Source? In Germany at least that’s not the case, it’s mainly the conservatives who push for it. In the original vote, only the greens clearly opposed it. Later on, SPD (center-left) and FDP (liberal) changed course to also oppose it. Couldn’t find results for other countries though, so I’m genuinely curious.

      • @wewbull@feddit.uk
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        412 days ago

        The labels get confusing especially between countries, but left and right are normally viewed as being economic policy classifications, but you can have authoritarians on right and left and all need to be fought.

            • @LesserAbe@lemmy.world
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              I’ve seen the compass, but in real life conversation when people say left or right they don’t exclusively mean economic views. For example, access to abortion or LGBT rights are generally seen as supported by the left and opposed by the right.

              You’re right it’s reductive, and really there are many dimensions to political thought.

              • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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                Exactly, and I try to point people to things like this to try to break that left vs right thought. I hope it helps someone.

                I’m left on some issues, right on some, and disagree with both on others, and I think that’s pretty common for most people. However, we only get two realistic options, and they split up issues and “force” you to pick which basket you prefer. I’m worried people will slowly adopt views from the basket they pick since the alternative is needing to pick the other basket.

                Anyway, rant over. :)

      • melroy
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        I believe all parties in EU are not really understanding technology in general. So I think it’s a very bad decision to give these people power over these kinds of rules. They just have no idea what they are doing frankly.

        • dactylotheca
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          512 days ago

          Yep, no disagreement there. This sort of mass surveillance is a fucking terrible idea no matter who’s behind the wheel

          • melroy
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            exactly, they these people are constantly trying to come up mass surveillance, over and over and over again. Never ending story.

        • @uis@lemm.ee
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          I believe all parties in EU are not really understanding technology in general.

          There are pirates. Well, after last elections it seems to be the pirate. Only one.