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Let's stop the EU chat control! [Most of your friends have never heard of Chat Control] (stopchatcontrol.eu)

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1️⃣ Completely normal photos, such as holiday pictures 🏞️ are considered suspicious.

2️⃣ So our private family photos or the chats and pictures from your sexting yesterday 🍑🍆 also end up on an official table. So we can throw privacy in the bin 🚮

Chances are high that most of your European friends have never heard of chat control. So let them know about the danger and what you think about the chat control proposal.

“The European Commission launched an attack on our civil rights with chat control. I contacted my local MEP to tell him that I oppose the proposal. You can do so too! This Website I found will help you write an e-mail to an MEP using A.I.”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fundamentally you guys are absolutely right. If they want to monitor us, we make it technically hard for them, e.g. by encrypting things locally (with only yourself having the secret key), instead of using a Big Tech platform and letting them encrypt things.

Maybe they’re trying to desensitize us, by proposing bad laws again and again, until eventually people give up. That’s slimy. If normal users don’t even know what’s happening, we better spread info. Not just passively disobeying, but actively telling them “No!” Maybe some politicians just really don’t understand the implications.

Also, at least in the US, we kind of won twice in the past: 1) Cryptography-related export control is generally unconstitutional. 2) PGP is legal & a user is not forced to escrow their key. We’re becoming weaker if we just keep thinking to ourselves, “Let’s just give up; they won’t change.”