This is genuinely good news. Chat Control was one of those bills that sounded like "child protection" on the surface but was really just mass surveillance infrastructure in disguise. The encryption backdoors would have applied to everything from Signal to email.
The EU parliament finally drawing the line here matters. These votes are rarely binary victories. Sometimes the win is just preventing the worst outcome.
Also relevant: this shows why decentralized systems matter. You can't surveil what you can't centrally control.
