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EU Revives Plan to Ban Private Messaging
Reclaim the Net ^ | August 4, 2025 | Cindy Harper

Posted on 08/06/2025 12:01:22 PM PDT by Salman

The EU is inching toward the biggest peacetime surveillance experiment in its history, with plans to quietly search every private message before you hit send.

The European Union is still wrestling with a controversial plan that would turn private messaging services into surveillance tools. For over three years, talks have stalled over whether providers should be forced to scan every user’s messages for possible illegal material and forward anything suspicious to law enforcement.

The European Commission is still pushing for a universal scanning requirement.

In contrast, the European Parliament insists any checks should apply only to unencrypted messages from people already under suspicion. Attempts to strike a deal have repeatedly fallen apart, with Poland the latest presidency to walk away without an agreement.

July brought a change in leadership of the Council of the EU, with Denmark stepping in and putting chat scanning back at the top of the legislative pile. Copenhagen wants this handled as a priority and wasted no time tabling a new draft on its very first day in charge.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; European Union; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 666; eu; europe; europeancommission; europeanunion; eussr; fourthreich; freespeech; html; privacy; spying; surveillance; surveillancestate; thebeast; tyranny
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They are really really afraid of their own people.
1 posted on 08/06/2025 12:01:22 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Talking is prohibited. - The Warden on arrival to Alcatraz


2 posted on 08/06/2025 12:03:38 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Salman

Dictators are like that


3 posted on 08/06/2025 12:03:59 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Salman
"They are really really afraid of their own people."

Not afraid enough..

4 posted on 08/06/2025 12:04:09 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: Salman

“before you hit send.”

Article does not support this headline.


5 posted on 08/06/2025 12:05:40 PM PDT by TexasGator (./There is no Sharknado system)
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To: Salman

Back to pigeons.


6 posted on 08/06/2025 12:06:27 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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“ They are really really afraid of their own people.”
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Yes they do. And they ABSOLUTELY HATE THEIR OWN NATIVE EUROPEANS.

Have absolutely no doubt of that.


7 posted on 08/06/2025 12:08:19 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: Salman

They are already doing that here... They are just not advertising it like the EU does.


8 posted on 08/06/2025 12:08:23 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Salman

The Tom Wolfe quote (again)

“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe”.


9 posted on 08/06/2025 12:09:32 PM PDT by KamperKen (u)
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To: Salman

They are creating the very “Nazi” like regime they all claim they are opposed to.


10 posted on 08/06/2025 12:11:00 PM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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To: Salman

And, according to the NATO toadies on this site, the US should support this. After all, these are our NATO Allies who we have a duty to support militarily and financially. (S)

And some wonder why I refer to the EU as the EUSSR. They are a immediate danger to freedom loving people everywhere.


11 posted on 08/06/2025 12:19:22 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (R.I.P. Diogo Jota! Gone too soon! You’ll never walk alone. #20 #Liverpool)
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“And they ABSOLUTELY HATE THEIR OWN NATIVE EUROPEANS.”

Gotta blame half of it on the NATIVE EUROPEANS who haven’t been paying attention.


12 posted on 08/06/2025 12:19:54 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: TexasGator

If each message is reviewed before being sent and anything flagged is sent to law enforcement, how is the messaging private?


13 posted on 08/06/2025 12:23:07 PM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: Salman

Why? What are they going to do?


14 posted on 08/06/2025 12:32:07 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: MortMan

Pay him no attention. For some unknown reason he enjoys bickering and quibbling.


15 posted on 08/06/2025 12:40:17 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: Salman

The EU is trying to make you think Russia is the biggest threat, while doing this to its own people!


16 posted on 08/06/2025 12:40:58 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Salman

Another reason why they let in so many muslims. They needed another reason to step up control of the entire population.


17 posted on 08/06/2025 12:46:24 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable anima)
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To: Tench_Coxe

They are afraid of their own people and especially afraid of the islamic invaders. The EU has always been anti-freedom but they are so beholden to the hoardes of muslims they are oppressing the native infidels to keep them from rioting.


18 posted on 08/06/2025 1:22:31 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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To: Salman

The Canadian PM wants to become Euro.


19 posted on 08/06/2025 1:24:18 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: House Atreides

Yes they do. And they ABSOLUTELY HATE THEIR OWN NATIVE EUROPEANS.


Denmark seems to be bucking the trend, and has decided that they prefer Danes living in Denmark rather than foreigners. They are doing dreadful things like publicizing the immigration status when it comes to crime statistics—something that could land a Brit in gaol.


20 posted on 08/06/2025 1:45:20 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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