Reject "Chat Control 1.0"
Reject "Chat Control 1.0"
The Issue
The 9th July 2026, the "Chat Control" measure, one that allows platforms to voluntarily mass scan private messages to "protect the children from pedocriminals", passed despite a majority of deputies being against this law and the Parliament having already rejected it.
We need this law to be rejected or at least for there to be a new fair vote, for a number of reasons:
1. It has been passed in an anti-democratic way with the measure being a rewrite of a law rejected by the Parliament, treated as a second reading (so only a majority of MEPs could stop it), just before summer break. This wasn't a fair vote.
2. It destroys the privacy of 450 millions of European citizens. This isn't targeted scanning, an IA will have access to all the private texts and all the photos you will send to your family, to your friends, to anyone.
3. The IA is unreliable at best. It has already been known for flagging vacation photos and discussions between teenagers, the very people this measure is meant to protect, and sending those to the authorities.
4. It doesn't protect the children. Quite the contrary, if they know their every words are being read and potentially sent to the authorities, they might seize talking about taboo topics like rape.
Worst, if they don't know about sexual harassment, how can they even defend themselves against it. You don't defend people by making them ignorant.
5. It would flood the authorities with false positives and drown them in mountains of conversations and photos that are irrelevant to child rape.
6. It wouldn't work. The pedocriminals don't use the sites where honest people go. They will simply continue their practices unbothered on insecure platforms and therefore be unaffected by this measure.
7. The people in the governments and from the authorities would be unaffected by this measure. One would like to know why.
For all those reasons, we need to fight back and we need to defend real measures against child abusers, we have to push back against surveillance measures that will affect everyone, especially the children and future adults.
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The Issue
The 9th July 2026, the "Chat Control" measure, one that allows platforms to voluntarily mass scan private messages to "protect the children from pedocriminals", passed despite a majority of deputies being against this law and the Parliament having already rejected it.
We need this law to be rejected or at least for there to be a new fair vote, for a number of reasons:
1. It has been passed in an anti-democratic way with the measure being a rewrite of a law rejected by the Parliament, treated as a second reading (so only a majority of MEPs could stop it), just before summer break. This wasn't a fair vote.
2. It destroys the privacy of 450 millions of European citizens. This isn't targeted scanning, an IA will have access to all the private texts and all the photos you will send to your family, to your friends, to anyone.
3. The IA is unreliable at best. It has already been known for flagging vacation photos and discussions between teenagers, the very people this measure is meant to protect, and sending those to the authorities.
4. It doesn't protect the children. Quite the contrary, if they know their every words are being read and potentially sent to the authorities, they might seize talking about taboo topics like rape.
Worst, if they don't know about sexual harassment, how can they even defend themselves against it. You don't defend people by making them ignorant.
5. It would flood the authorities with false positives and drown them in mountains of conversations and photos that are irrelevant to child rape.
6. It wouldn't work. The pedocriminals don't use the sites where honest people go. They will simply continue their practices unbothered on insecure platforms and therefore be unaffected by this measure.
7. The people in the governments and from the authorities would be unaffected by this measure. One would like to know why.
For all those reasons, we need to fight back and we need to defend real measures against child abusers, we have to push back against surveillance measures that will affect everyone, especially the children and future adults.
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Petition created on July 9, 2026