EU countries are pushing to revive Chat Control message-scanning — dead forever, or just delayed?

Chat Control keeps coming back. After loud public pushback, EU countries are again floating message-scanning rules that would pressure encrypted apps to scan content client-side or weaken end-to-end promises.

Supporters say it's about catching CSAM and serious crime. Critics say once you can scan "for that," the scope expands — and true E2E becomes theater.

What's striking is the pattern: the proposal dies in the headlines, cools off, then returns under a slightly different name or procedure. r/europe has been full of this cycle again.

If you're in the EU: do you treat Chat Control as a solved political loss for the scanners, or as something that returns until it sticks? And would you switch messengers if scanning became mandatory on the big apps?