{"id":702034,"date":"2026-07-10T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=702034"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:05:41","slug":"europe-votes-against-thought-policing-chat-control-brussels-passes-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=702034","title":{"rendered":"Europe Votes Against Thought-Policing &#8216;Chat Control&#8217;, Brussels Passes It Anyway&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>On Thursday in Strasbourg, 314 Members of the European Parliament voted to reject the return of &#8220;Chat Control,&#8221; the legal regime allowing tech companies to scan the private messages of roughly half a billion Europeans. Only 276 voted to keep it.<\/h4>\n<p><strong>So naturally, the scanning regime won &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>thanks to a &#8216;quirky&#8217; voting procedure in Brussels that <em><strong>allowed legislation to survive even though most MEPs who cast a vote opposed it.<\/strong><\/em> That should alarm anyone who still believes the word &#8220;parliament&#8221; is supposed to mean something.<\/p>\n<p>This is how \u201cDEMOCRACY\u201d works in Europe:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/europe-votes-against-chat-control-brussels-passes-it-anyway\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/europe-votes-against-chat-control-brussels-passes-it-anyway<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday in Strasbourg, 314 Members of the European Parliament voted to reject the return of &#8220;Chat Control,&#8221; the legal regime allowing tech companies to scan the private messages of roughly half a billion Europeans. Only 276 voted to keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=702034\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702035,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702034\/revisions\/702035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}