is giving a massive headache to those trying to pass a European bill aimed at stopping child sexual abuse material from spreading online.
Hot garbage lies
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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Politico’s framing leans pro‑legislation, subtly signaling support for the bill by foregrounding officials and advocates who stress enforcement while downplaying arguments about encryption and civil liberties. Its emphasis on the public’s “disruptive” tactics risks delegitimizing grassroots opposition by casting broad civic engagement as mere nuisance rather than substantive democratic protest.
Politico is owned by Germany's largest right leaning yellow press publisher Axel Springer. They love to push Anti-Green, ultra conservative agendas
And Mathias Döpfner is himself an out of touch billionaire-class nut who applauds the tamping of freedoms (including of the press) and jumps at every chance to breathe life into lies that advance his oligarchic wet dreams. The kind of person who says horrible things, then lies about saying them, and when confronted with the receipts, pretends he was just being "edgy" or "provocative" to provoke the plebs.
News organizations that exist to accurately report the news and properly inform the public are the exception now, I'm afraid. The rest have an agenda, and it never involves the common good.
Common tactic for the elite media controlling class like Trump, Musk, etc.
wtf????? thanks for the info i was not at all aware that politico was an axel springer outlet
i've always wondered who could be a euro version of roger ailes or rupert murdoch...
Oh. It's them. Eyeo for the w?
I see two lies.
First, obviously the bill is not about stopping CSAM.
The second, in no way is this a massive headache to anyone. You guys know email filters are a thing right?
The same guys relentlessly defending the child mass murders in Gaza, here cosplay as being against child sexual abuse.
The irony is so massive that I'm surprised a black hole didn't form at Politico's main office in Germany.
The site lets visitors compile a mass email warning about the bill and send it to national government officials, members of the European Parliament and others with ease
Why are they talking about this as if it's a strange thing to happen and disruptive? I've seen lots of websites about a political issue that help people send emails to their representatives, isn't that just a normal part of democracy?
Normal part of democracy sighted GUNSHOTS
the same reason they say the bill is (objective) to fight CSAM and privacy activists say (subjective) it will break encryption and lead to mass surveillance
the owners of politico want the bill to pass
Government officials: right clicks email and sets up a filter to automatically move them to a separate folder, or just delete them
It is normal, and also irrelevant. Representatives don't read their (public) E-Mails.
A website set up by an unknown Dane
The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer living in Aalborg, Denmark.
Does anyone fucking proof-read anything any more? Or does unknown just mean 'not famous' these days? FML.
A Dane with under a million followers, so a nobody really.
The campaign has irked some recipients. “In terms of dialog within a democracy, this is not a dialog,” said Lena Düpont, a German member of the European People’s Party group and its home affairs spokesperson, of the mass emails.
Then open your eyes and ears and pay attention. If you did, then people wouldnt be forced to send you these emails. Germany is still "undecided" on this issue and we could basically single-handedly decide the outcome. If Germany votes against then it wont pass.
For crying out loud.. she is right. After she/they didn't initiated the much needed dialog (for the xth. time), this was a protest note, sent by those they were talking about, but not listening to. Still a very democratic process.
At no point did i say that this is a dialog. Im just say she shouldnt be mad at the people emailing, but at her government.
The quote says: "this is not a dialog". I'm arguing against Düpont as they failed to initiate a dialog the several times they tried to pass the exact same regulation.
Ah silly me. I just woke up... Thanks for making me read your comment again with my brain turned on.
Unfathomably based
modern day hero
they should open snail mail to check it for CSAM I don't care
Uk needs this for Britcard BS
Waow