We have never seen an European Regulation adopted this quickly by European governments (less than 3 months!), despite concerns voiced by some Member States . Macron has obviously convinced them that, as European elections are getting closer, they could maintain their powers by using the everlasting terrorism pretext. Censorship and mass surveillance of the Internet will be the result.

The EU Council has just decided, right now and without any serious debate, to carry a Regulation proposal that will force all Internet actors to submit to mass surveillance and automated censorship tools provided by Facebook and Google , while allowing the police to order them to remove within one hour content they consider “terrorist”, without the authorisation of a judge.

These two delusional and unprecedent measures will force the entire digital European ecosystem to submit to a handful of giants that the EU cynically pretends to fight (read our analysis), while putting at risk the confidentiality of our exchanges … All this despite the fact that neither the European Commission nor the governments have been able to demonstrate how this text may be of any use against terrorism .

Debates on this text will continue before the European Parliament. Next Wednesday, the 12th of December, the Parliament will vote on a report about anti-terrorism, which, even if not a proper legislation, promotes nearly the same absurd measures that the ones provided by the Anti-terrorism Censorship Regulation, which will be debated by the Parliament in the coming weeks.

This first vote on Wednesday will be an opportunity for each Member of the European Parliament to reveal its position on the totalitarian project of Emmanuel Macron. As the electoral campaign for the European elections of 2019 is getting underway, they will be held accountable for this vote.