Sadly I believe this is legit. Here's a better* source https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-platform...

*This source at least explains the other side of the issue.

It should be noted that this allows for the continuation of voluntary scanning and reporting to CSAM that some companies do for all messages that goes via their platforms.

This is also a temporary legislation that will be in place until a long term legislation is in place.

Regardless of that I do think this legislation is bad.

Really? It seems to refer to this: https://iapp.org/news/a/eu-lawmakers-close-to-agreement-on-t... which looks to be very much true.

How is it satire? Wikipedia[0] says that Patrick Breyer is a real MEP and this is his official blog.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Breyer

Yes he is. Here are twitter and fediverse accounts:

- https://chaos.social/@echo_pbreyer

- https://twitter.com/echo_pbreyer

Appreciate the correction. I assumed it because of the last line "More Information on Chatcontrol: www.chatcontrol.eu" - that link literally redirects back to his own website.

Legitimately terrifying that a new surveillance state can be announced and nobody knows if it's satire or not.

Quite!