The EU Council and its participants have decided to withdraw the vote on the contentious Chat Control plan proposed by Belgium, the current EU President.

Moritz Körner, Member of the European Parliament, disclosed the decision on Twitter. Swedish publisher SVG said, “The question was removed at the last moment from Thursday’s ambassadorial meeting in Brussels”.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Check out the political compass, which is an interesting way to conceptualize political leanings. I don’t think the test is particularly good (I have issues with a few of the questions), but the answer I get is pretty close to where I think I should be placed, so maybe there’s some merit to it.

    I’m consistently in the bottom half near the center line, and the two major parties in my country are in the top right. I guess that just demonstrates why I fail to see much difference in what I care about in the two major parties, since moving toward either direction is a move away from me.

    Anyway, I hope this is a decent demonstration of how the left/right divide doesn’t tell the whole story.

    • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      The problem with political compass arises when you understand that political and economic freedoms are in conflict with each other under capitalism.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 months ago

        ? The compass takes economic systems into account. Left vs right is socialism vs free market capitalism, and top vs bottom is authoritarianism vs libertarianism.

        So if you think capitalism causes issues, you’d nudge those ideologies further up the authoritarian spectrum.