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it is because the commission just has to bide its time once the law is passed future parliaments can't modify or repeal it

• pas 5y ago
  it doesn't depend on time. the parliament can reject it every single time without it ever getting tired. and since the MEPs represent the same people who elect governments who then delegate to the commission, it's strange if the commission continues to propose regulations that are unpopular.
  • blibble 5y ago
    you're thinking on a sub 5 year scale the commission can wait for a parliament that will pass its legislation and once it's passed: that's it, future parliaments can do nothing about it and if a member state wants it gone: it has to leave the EU entirely and politically the commission is the same as it has always been (by design)
    • pas 5y ago
      the commission does what the member states want. obviously it has its own agency in the matters, but members don't send someone who would totally disregard their wishes. the whole problem with these security-privacy ideas is that the member governments want to reign in the Internet, just as they did with every other phenomena for the past hundreds of years. (with varying degrees of "success".) CSAM is especially a big red cloth that catches the eye of governments. It's not like there was less child abuse before the Internet, and if there were absolutely no CSAM on it from tomorrow ther wouldn't be less actual abuse... :/