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> The discussions will resume after the summer, once the new Parliament is seated and Hungary assumes the Council presidency from Belgium in July. Hungary has already committed to developing a comprehensive legislative framework to prevent and combat online child sexual abuse and revising the directive against the sexual exploitation of children.

Such as? Does it have anything to do with what "Chat Control" is about? What does Hungary have anything to do with it?

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> What does Hungary have anything to do with it?

Presidency over the EU council rotates every half year. The presidency sets the agenda. In July Hungary will take over.

Hungary, with a less democratic government is interested in control infrastructure, thus likely to push such an initiative.

Chat Control is the main proposal, the following paragraph clearly says that they have until 2026 to agree on what that proposal is going to look like. Hungary has already said that it has plans to continue negotiations.

This outrage is about forceful E2EE monitoring and not letting EU users to view links or images unless they agree to the said monitoring. What happened today puts an end to that for the time being, but it is unlikely to come back.

Check out this:

https://chatcontrol.eu/

I think you may have meant to say 'overwhelmingly likely to come back' or maybe 'extremely unlikely to stay ended'.

Not everyone thinks humanity is so far gone. Many believe it will never pass.

> Hungary has already said that it has plans to continue negotiations.

But at the same time Hungary loathes the EU. If anything, they are doing it for the money, no?

Hungary is set to fight child grooming and exploitation, that is centralised in a few organisations. Very opposite from global dragnet surveillance to "protect children".

And as post soviet country, they are very strict about privacy laws, and protecting civil rights!

Hungary currently seems pro-Russian and pro-authoritarian/strongman. Will they really be strict about protecting civil and privacy rights?

wouldnt trust ANY government, but nothing to indicate they are in any way worse than the current ones, which did after all come up with the abomination that is chat control

I think it lacks /s at the end.

It's probably worth reflecting on some of the things Hungary considers to be child grooming and exploitation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_anti-LGBT_law

"Hungary is set to fight child grooming and exploitation, that is centralised in a few organisations."

Hungary is going after the catholic church?

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