A tale of two gates.

Brussels is building two gates for the European internet. One swings open: it lets the state look inside your private chats. One slams shut: it locks your kids out of the feed. Same union, same summer, opposite directions. This is the whole story, and you can run the deciding vote yourself.

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Prologue

Act I / the gate that opens

Chat Control: the law that keeps almost passing.

Hover any dot. Click to pin. Shaded bands are council presidencies, the engine of every push.

Act ii / the vote

Run the council vote yourself.

A council text needs a qualified majority: 15 of 27 states and 65% of the EU population. A blocking minority needs just 4 states over 35% of population. Below are the current government positions. Click any country to flip it and watch the math move.

for the text (scanning stays) against undecided / abstains

States for

Population for

65%

Blocking minority (4 states + 35% pop)

35%

Act iii / the gate that closes

The age wall is going up, country by country.

Act iv / caught between the gates

The ctg. take

Epilogue / one number

Notes / methodology