It's basically a pointless publicity stunt. The law in question provides a hole for private companies to allow them to scan for child molestation materials, all

It's basically a pointless publicity stunt. The law in question provides a hole for private companies to allow them to scan for child molestation materials, allowing Apple and similar to do what they were intending on doing anyway. There was a pressure to pass something quickly for whatever reason (I'm sure has nothing to do with Silicon Valley lobbyists), it's "legally flawed" and it will crumble in front of the court. It's a performance for the sake of the performance. European MPs pretend that they're doing something about the problem without ever even beginning to address it, fully aware that courts will undo their "effort", at which point they'd be like "oh well, we did our part".