> And then politicians in Brussels wanted to exempt themselves from the scanning. > And then? > And then the European Parliament, in an almost historic consen

> And then politicians in Brussels wanted to exempt themselves from the scanning. > And then? > And then the European Parliament, in an almost historic consensus, voted against the proposal and called Chat Control nothing but mass surveillance. As one of the members of the parliament said: “The Commission wasn’t focusing on protecting children but wanted mass surveillance.” As in Tom and Jerry: "This shouldn't happen to a dog, said dogs". Or in Orwell's Animal Farm: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." and "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."