Great news (for now)... See you same time next week!

The price of liberty is constant vigilance, and so forth.

It's been this every couple of months for like a year now. They're just going to keep ramming it through over and over again until they wear down the people, knowing full well that it's way harder to repeal existing legislation.

It's an issue from the translation

This time. They'll keep trying, like all the times before.

Edit:

However, the issue is not yet off the table. Despite the failure in committee, the European Parliament's plenary session is expected to address the dossier as early as next week. The LIBE decision is considered an official recommendation for the plenary, but further surprises cannot be ruled out in the charged debate. Proponents of chat control in the Commission and the Council of Ministers, who are seeking an extension of the powers until April 2028, will try to close ranks in the plenary. However, should the failure be confirmed there, voluntary chat control would face a swift end.

Well, yes, but also considered that many companies are just implementing invasive identification practices anyway. Discord is just the most recent. It seems to have the added benefit of being an added barrier to market entry for their competitors.

...and out right kills some of those competitors who's business model depends ds on privacy.

We're starting to see more and more of this. These tech companies that used to be innovators and favor a somewhat open internet aren't building for innovation and communication. They're building dependence.

Between Google, Meta, and Microsoft the average user is being locked into a digital gilded cage. Policed by AI with no heavy censorship and no ownership of data.

Yes this law was defeated but the fight is endless, and right now we need to be watching big tech as much as lawmakers.

Everyone in Germany knew this Commission would be full of shit the moment Von Der Leyen was somehow cross-promoted to it (she's from the famously corrupt conservative "Christian Democrats", so it's no wonder she was promoted after screwing things up). We dealt with her bullshit for years prior.

Hey man, that consent ain't gonna manufacture itself!

Skimming through the article, it also sounds pretty negative.

It might be AI translated or translated by someone who isn't proficient enough to do so. The German article is written in a more neutral to leaning against it tone.

"Schlappe" is a German "Newspaper" expression denoting someone or something failed, but from a standpoint of an observer that is mostly against it. It's not a "positive" or neutral term of failure.