Also get those MPs imprisoned
I’ve contacted them yesterday evening. Funnily enough, all the AfD opposes chat control. They’re clever. If chat control were to pass, they could campaign on having opposed it, and then mission creep it once elected.
Operation Rubicon!
This is such a bad idea that even the US stopped doing it to all their enemies (i.e. their allies). Of course they have PRISM instead now which can’t be cracked by their enemies (i.e. their enemies and allies).
The site failed at the last step… Fortunately all my reps are opposed
Aren’t Europeans supposed to be the good guys?
the EU commission is absolutely dumb and definitely not on the side of the people though. by the way, it’s also not democratically elected.
The EU’s been veering right for a few years now.
There are no “good guys” or “bad guys” in geopolitics, just shades of grey. On quite a few topics, the EU is better, but any government is capable of doing stupid shit.
good take
No, the EU is just as much liberal capitalism as the US. They have a better social safety net and looked better in comparison.
One point of hope is that they mandated cross platform chat compatibility too, and every platform is just… Ignoring it and not doing it with zero consequences.
Maybe this just also won’t happen.
Feeling hopeful about giant tech companies ignoring attempts to reign them in is unwise, even when it occasionally lines up with something you personally want. And I even say that as someone with permanent distrust of the big power structures doing the regulating.
Of course chat control would be practically infeasible. But it’s not even about that. It’s about the simple fact that the EU commission ignores the will of the people, when the people have already clearly said NO. It’s about the disrespect that the EU commission exerts against the people. That in itself is unacceptable.
It’s ironic to use a meme from a movie depicting a fascistic government, to protest against a fascistic measure.
I suppose the better meme would be “it ain’t much, but it’s honest work”
This is the worst thing in ages. I’m 50+, very good with IT, and I understand that we MUST act against it.
But I’m tired, boss.
Surrounded by lemmings and sheep that love Facebook and WhatsApp. People are stupid. I don’t have the energy to fight so much ignorance and stupidity - willful or otherwise.
I’m overwhelmed by this stupidity and collective ignorance all the time. Not just in data privacy regards.
Some days I just want to give up and say “screw it”. But damn, I can’t. And a lot of others will not stop. If you do, thats alright, it is okay to rest.
Thank you, kind stranger.
The provided link will let you contact MPs with just a few lazy clicks.
Just a few years older, in IT as a career, and absolutely the same.
You know what though, when encryption was first developed in the form of pgp, the whole point was that it was to sidestep the government being able to spy on you.
Perhaps we just need to accept that we need to take encrypted communication into our own hands and not rely on messaging apps to protect us
The issue came down to ease of usability. PGP simply wasn’t plug-and-play, hell it wasn’t even easy to set up. And most importantly, it absolutely depended on the other person having the same configuration.
As messaging platforms like Signal has shown, security and encryption needs to be transparent and unnoticeable. It needs to be totally frictionless and thinking-free in order for the average Joe to want to use it.
And that is even before other issues such as platform stickiness, which Signal has issues with.
I’m not an EU citizen yet, and as a non-citizen brown man, i doubt the MEP would listen to me. How can I do my part anyway?
In many cases this could be argued as unconstitutional.
According to the EU constitution?
According to constitutions of member states.
At least here it’s worded in a way that chat control could be argued as unconstitutional (not a lawyer tho).I would not be surprised that any other sane constitution protects privacy, and by extension digital correspondence, under fundamental rights.
In germany, it’s not technically unconstitutional (i checked last week because i assumed it should be) but it definitely feels like it should be unconstitutional. After WW2, there was a consensus to not surveil your own population, and this is a very important constraint to keep in mind.
In Lithuania privacy is defined as a fundamental right and it includes correspondence, digital or otherwise.
Would that prevent passing laws enabling chat control? Doubt it, but I can see it as a good legal argument against it.
Oh shit - I thought they dropped this! JFC, EU! What TF are you doing?
There seems to be some kind of group repeatedly pushing this crap every other year, with increasingly shady tactics.
I would for sure like to know from where this emanates…
Not enough people are aware of just how evil Peter Theil really is
Agreed. I’ve tried to tell people about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment but friends and family brush it off like it’s some small cult thing instead of being silently funded by billionaires
I swear that fuckface is part Ellen Degeneres
It’s the pro-surveilance people that want to monetize your data. They try and lean on fear and push this “only ISIS uses Signal” narrative that is obviously false.
It’s just so preposterous - businesses and payment processors rely on e2ee just as much as anyone else does. The one time we’re on the same team they just want a carve out for businesses or something I expect.
So that’s why their quiz is stacked this weird way:
Yeah, classic juked survey. Not objective at all, only someone that is “pro-crime!” would say no.
ISIS also breathes oxygen.
Oh no! Get it all out of here!!! Ah!
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This is why Russian, Chinese and other messaging apps (good one is Telegram) are spiking in EU. The kremlin will have my chats, but I never plan on travelling to Russia anyways.
If it passes in the EU, it will pass in the United States. This affects all of us.
Any Dutch people here? Follow nerdvote.nl, to help decide who to vote for this election. They are suggesting technical minded people should unite and form a block in elections, so that parties will try to cater to us. If you want our vote, come up with plans an proposals to create digital sovereignty and freedom. As a member of PVDA/GL I am probably voting Barbara Kathmann , as she is fighting for digital sovereignty. Without preferential votes she probably won’t make it in so your preferential vote matters!
