Absolute outrage clickbait. The bill is intended to protect children from traffickers. It is sponsored by the European Commission. The nonprofit founded by Ashton Kutcher supports it. He's not personally in Brussels demanding surveillance. The draft of the bill is likely written from a single point of view with a set of rules beyond what they expect to get, then it will be negotiated down and they'll get some of it or none of it. The notion that we should not even try to combat child sex trafficking because it will have some associated cost is really selfish. Obviously, we have to balance concerns, but that's entirely possible to do responsibly.
I think the last 20 years (really 100 years) have shown that abuse of free speech and privacy will happen no matter what when the authorities want it to and not at all when the don't. The US ran warrantless wiretapping for over a year post 9/11 and sucked up all sorts of completely illegally obtained communication and as far we know not a single civilian was remotely inconvenienced for it. Meanwhile Russia is throwing journalists out windows for their very public statements of fact.
I think the last 20 years (really 100 years) have shown that abuse of free speech and privacy will happen no matter what when the authorities want it to and not at all when the don't. The US ran warrantless wiretapping for over a year post 9/11 and sucked up all sorts of completely illegally obtained communication and as far we know not a single civilian was remotely inconvenienced for it. Meanwhile Russia is throwing journalists out windows for their very public statements of fact.