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FWIW, I signed. Does this even have any legal grounds? I mean even if 1 million people signed, they're not required to take any action, because it's not official. AFAIK there needs to be an initiative, don't ask me for the correct wording, some official initiative and if after idk how long there are no 1 million signatures it will always auto fail every time someone attempts the same topic.

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It is just a petition - basically meant to be something for the legislators to consider. AFAIK the new "coerced consent" version of chat control has not been officially proposed yet. We'll see in the coming weeks if the EU council actually tries to push it forward, and even if they do there is a pretty high change it falls through due to being fundamentally incompatible with the constitution of many european countries and / or the parliament voting against it.

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