> To be fair, it's only in discussions now, it hasn't been voted AFAIK and it hasn't been implemented.

Correct but ChatControl now has a majority among EU Commissioners. The fact that something like this is even proposed in the "free" land and the people responsible not laughed out of the room is sickening.

> Compare that to the NSA... ever heard of Snowden?

Spying on your unencrypted communication? That's not comparable + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

> Spying on your unencrypted communication?

Either you're in bad faith, or you actually don't know how it works in the US and what the NSA was (probably is still) doing.

Do tell.

For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Revelations

> Correct but ChatControl now has a majority among EU Commissioners. The fact that something like this is even proposed in the "free" land and the people responsible not laughed out of the room is sickening.

I agree that this is terrible, but based on prior ECJ rulings, this will almost certainly be struck down if it's ever passed.