11mo ago

Chatcontrol back on track... Poland and Germany may switch to a yes!

Germany and Poland may say yes to chatcontrol!

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11mo ago

Chatcontrol back on track... Poland and Germany may switch to a yes!

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I would like to know how these politicians feel about being surveilled 24/7? Because they aren't excluded.
- The European Ministry whants to exclude themselves and europeans intelligence agencies (europool) from the surveillance. The Ministry is the only instance that's have talked about excluding.
  
  They don't realise they won't be ministers for ever.
- Elections? No need for them after the surveillance system is up and running!
The "liberal" German coalition is being actively hostile as usual...
Is there a template we could use for the email?
- Best I can find is here https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#AdditionalInformation
  
  Hmm, that seems like a good start, but sadly pretty broad and incomplete. On the top of my head, I can recall an incident where Google automatically called the cops on a father, because he shared pictures of his child with a doctor. I also recall that in Germany, teachers can get in trouble currently, if they share images their pupils were sharing, with the parents to alert them. Furthermore, a scanner looking for certain triggers can be trivially circumvented by simply encrypting the images before sending them. All of those points seem to be missing from the website, which makes me question of those points I mentioned are really applicable or not.
I will just host a matrix instance. Decentralization is the future.
Also, why don't they realize that avoiding chat control is soo easy. Unless it isn't actually meant to prevent crimes
Here is an interesting article on how stupid the chat control is. It's in German, but probably easy to translate.
How much longer will we have to periodically „stop” this? Is this some kind if a test?
- The answer is forever. Even if chat control dies for good there will be some other initiative, just as there were many before this one. Maintaining your rights and freedoms unfortunately requires constant vigilance.
Is this something like the online safety bill in the uk?
- As I understand it, it's exactly like the online safety bill in the uk. but I'm not that well-read on online safety bill.
Please tell me again how the 80s and 90s were horrible times and this is the best time ever.
Yarr!

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