@cczona @glyph because they are politicians, trained to create compromise. They don’t understand unmoveable facts. Everyday they optimize compromises between stakeholders and interest groups by giving everyone something.
Also they are accustomed to people lying to them like everytime they try to regulate industry, these industries tell them: We will leave/be bankrupt if you do this. Usually this doesn’t happen, but it rhymes with our pleas to please not kill end-to-end-crypto.
Their burocrates are trained, expected and rewarded to be generalists, not experts in a domain, so their „expertise“ is shallow and there is no one „inside the house“, and therefore trusted, who can validate our position against the other sides lobby position. Traditionally the media could provide some of that, but as good journalism has been gutted for a long time, there is no one there either.
And the real alternative, funding police and courts adequately is expensive for the public purse (chat control is payed for by the chat providers) and would require raising taxes. Nobody thinks that politically possible and the left who are thinking about it are always under the suspicion of being soft on crime. So there isn’t really an alternative and therefore if you’re against this you‘re „in favor“ of csam.
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Why are EU pols so obsessed with passing Chat Control?