> Nice to see that democracy can work

Did it work? One political party (EPP) didn't like the result of the previous vote and so they forced a re-vote.

> After the European Parliament had already rejected the indiscriminate and blanket Chat Control by US tech companies on 13 March, conservative forces attempted a democratically highly questionable maneuver yesterday to force a repeat vote to extend the law anyway.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parl...

Note that European parliament parties aren't particularly cohesive; some EPP members voted against it.

> some EPP members voted against it

20 out of 184

Do I understand the voting / results wrong? Looking at this: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/189270

The measure voted on is "Extension [of Chat Control 1.0]", it was voted 36% "for" and 49% "against" (so result is "against"), and looking at "Political groups", majority of EPP MEPs voted "against" (137 out of 164 votes).

I think the point of confusion is that there was an amendment before the final vote, which was way closer.

But the vote failed only because the EPP voted against it? Or did they mix up the buttons or something? https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/189270

EPP wanted indiscriminate scanning instead, not targeted one.

EPP is appalling and I'm revolted that many large so-called "moderate, centre-right, liberal-conservative" parties are happily part of it and indeed actively pushing extremely anti-citizen, anti-human agendas with the help of the far right.

(Edit: word choice)

Site guidelines: "Please don't fulminate."

Did you even look at the voting pattern? The far right was completely against it or extremely split on the issue.

> with the help of the far right.

S&D voted even more for this than the conservatives themselves. ESN the least.

See you next month!