EU chat control is also better than American government spying on American tech companies (which is effectively a kind of EU Chat Control, except its USA who gets to spy). Both are bad, but one is less bad.
True, at least the EU does it above board. No secret court backroom shenanigans.
I'm still super opposed to chatcontrol but at least it's in the open for us to fight.
For the average citizen absolutely not there is no free speech in the EU any form of EU chat control will result in constant arrests for what should be perfectly legal speech.