(This isn't creepy at all, nope.)

From: https://shorturl.at/UJYYs (thegatewaypundit.com)

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    EU Set to Quietly Pass "Chat Control" Legislation That Will Allow Every
                     Message-Encrypted or Not-To Be Scanned

   by Robert Semonsen Nov. 26, 2025 2:00 pm

   The Brussels globalist machine never sleeps. When Europeans rejected the
   original "Chat Control" last month, the `liberal' establishment-on both
   the right and the left-simply repackaged it as "Chat Control 2.0" and
   started quietly making plans to slip it through the back door.

   Today, EU officials are expected to meet and quietly rubber-stamp a
   negotiating mandate that pretends to drop mandatory scanning while letting
   Big Tech "voluntarily" spy on your WhatsApp and Signal messages.

   According to MEP Martin Sonneborn (Die Partei) on X, the draft is set to
   appear on the agenda of EU ambassadors on Wednesday and is expected to be
   approved without discussion.

   The Chat Control proposal was first introduced last summer under the
   banner of protecting children from online abuse.

   Its core mechanism required all messaging services-such as WhatsApp,
   Telegram, Signal, and Messenger-to implement automated scanning of every
   private message, photo, and video for suspected illegal material.

   Resistance to the proposed legislation emerged immediately and forcefully.
   Thousands of legal experts, technologists, and Members of the European
   Parliament condemned the plan, arguing that it would shatter privacy
   rights, overturn the presumption of innocence, and breach the fundamental
   principle of proportionality protected by the EU Charter of Fundamental
   Rights.

   According to former MEP Patrick Breyer, this latest push to revive the law
   is the same surveillance monster, just wearing a friendlier mask and
   packed with poison pills that make it even worse than the original.

   Belgian researcher Tijl De Bie called it "Chat Control on steroids via the
   back door" and warned that passing it would be the ultimate betrayal of
   every voter who still believes in privacy.

   Tech expert Raf Vantongerloo summed up the EU playbook: keep bringing the
   same law back, slightly tweaked, until the resistance gets tired and the
   lobbyists win.

   "They keep introducing it every year or so, slightly altered to appease
   the MEPs that voted against. Meanwhile, the lobbying continues ... so
   eventually they get their laws approved. Those practices should be
   illegal."

   France and Denmark obediently saluted, while Germany and Poland-at least
   for now-are pushing back against this latest assault on personal freedom.

   Hidden review clauses guarantee that today's "compromise" becomes
   tomorrow's mandatory mass surveillance grid.

   The grim reality is that the law isn't designed to protect children; it's
   designed to preserve EU globalists' control over their increasingly
   popular political adversaries.

   The same anti-European, open-borders elite who destroyed the continent by
   flooding Europe with unvetted, military-aged migrant men from alien
   cultures now want the power to read every private message you send to your
   family, friends, and colleagues.
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