Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian July 9, 2026
Yesterday, the European Parliament held a vote on the issue of “chat control” – the legislation empowering tech giants to monitor private messages, allegedly to counter an “epidemic” of child sexual abuse material.
From EuroNews:
The legislation has been dubbed “chat control” by its critics, due to its privacy implications, particularly on end-to-end encrypted communications. The European Parliament is set to vote again this week on controversial legislation that would allow technology companies to scan online communications for child sexual abuse material.
That vote, technically on extending a temporary measure that expired in early April, was held yesterday.
The majority of MEPs voted “no”.
The motion was passed anyway.
This was the second vote on this issue, it was previously rejected by a handy majority in March (311 against, 228 for, 92 absent). But the powers-that-be are really desperate to get this law in place, so they pulled out all the stops this time around.
Here is Czech MEP Markéta Gregorová explaining the situation:
The EU Parliament REJECTED Chat Control, but now they are forcing us to vote it AGAIN to revive it. What kind of democracy is this if we’re forced to vote on the same issue over and over until they get the result they want?
My colleague @MarketkaG explained the situation very… pic.twitter.com/veRJZgMVbW
— Fidias Panayiotou (@Fidias0) July 8, 2026
The vote was called as an “urgent procedure”, and some are claiming this is breach of rules, as this is generally not allowed for issues on a second or third vote, but I have been unable to find this rule in procedural rules of the EU parliament myself.
It was called on the on the last before the summer break when many MEPs were already absent.
The granting of “urgent procedure” status means skipping debate, amendments and – most crucially – that it needs an absolute majority (361 votes) against it or it will be passed:
This “urgent procedure” skips preliminary committee debates where amendments would often be introduced and stipulates that the regulation passes unless an absolute majority of 361 MEPs vote against it.
The number of absentees made it essentially impossible for the bill to be rejected.
Chat Control will now extend until at least April of 2028. This is the European Union’s “Democracy” in action.
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This nonsense has to be why they need so many data centres. If every digital app that captures data, from doorbells to in-car cameras, from millions of sites and people daily ie. billions per month, storing the data is one problem. The other is the computer power needed to retrieve it.
It’s no good having somebody countless times in the files but with having no way to discover what footage they might want to look at. Real people would have to scan it all if AI says here’s who you want but we can’t figure out what you want. There has to be a lot of data – metadata? – stored with every item deposited, just for the possibility of recovering the right piece of data if ever it’s needed.
Complete Authoritarian control is on the horizon, worldwide. Collectively we have all been subconsciously captured through propaganda and subliminal programming. All of that has been supported and supplemented with GMO food products and Poisonous additives, processes and packaging. The onslaught of attacks against us will not subside With the current level of resistance, awareness and preparation. The weakened and dumbed down public is primed for complete takeover after the next series of Hegelian actions ( Problem, Reaction, Solution ) ( Thesis, Anti-thesis, Synthesis )
its not democracy . every time the rulers use this
word think that it only means DEMONOCRACY .
their thoughts are guided telepaticly by DEMONS .
also priests, pope, mullahs,muftis, rabbis, partyleaders
suffer under same syndrom . they think their thoughts
are theirs . they are very much mistaken .
“What kind of democracy is this if we’re forced to vote on the same issue over and over until they get the result they want?”
ZOGOCRACY