Exactly… the next 3 presidents (Cyprus, Ireland, Lithuania) all support the legislation, and the three afterward (Greece, Italy, Latvia) are undecided, but their indecision doesn’t seem to come from a moral standpoint. This puts us in 2029 before the leadership (Luxembourg then Netherlands) actually rejects broad privacy invasion on principle.

This assessment assumes no sentiment changes on the national levels, which is of course a wrong assumption. It’s important to keep respect for private life on the minds of politicians to prevent delay another attempt. 🫩

Han er bange for at hans egne meldinger bliver gjort offentligt.

Translation: he's scared that his own messages will become public.

It's like in school - the kid who doesn't raise his hand is the one that has to answer the question.

I believe it means that it is voluntary for the service providers to implement such measures, not that users can opt-in. This means that any E2EE message service providers wouldn't be required to implement client side scanning, but that any provider not offering E2EE could still scan server side and report.

I’m an expat living in Denmark and it confused me how this was not only supported but led by the Danish presidency! From a close outsider perspective, it didn’t feel like it matched what I know of Danes, but came from politicians.

My Danish is not very good yet so I’m not very plugged into grassroots feelings. It felt weird that this legislation would be led by a country with an overall high digital literacy and respect for private life. I assumed the rather high trust in public institutions was a significant factor, but it’s not like the people I know are blindly trusting.

I have a better idea. Use the freetown Christiania to overthrow the government, behead him, put the government back into power willingly. Just for shits n gigs.

It's not an ending; the only ending is the bad one. We need to succeed every time, but terrorists only once. It'll be back.

It's not a full ending yet. It's a local win. But the possibility for the proposed "voluntary" surveillance is still discussed. We need to push until April 2026 to make sure this sh*t doesn't get through in any shape or form.

I've also edited the post slightly, adding a TL&DR; on top.

somehow

Yeah, it happens surprisingly often.

Even for people that aren't too knowledgeble or care about it, it's usually a good indicator if it's a "bad thing" when the ministers themselves are exempt from what is being proposed.

And how do you know, do you see the future? They will abandon as well if we keep pushing. Nothing is guaranteed of course - even that your country will not become a dictatorship. But you can push, and keep fighting for your rights while you have them.

Eh, the Danish presidency will end in the end of December. Whether any future presidency will take it up again is a different question of course.