The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025
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Thank god my OS doesn't care about EU regulation
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Maybe it’s time to restart some some old Greek traditions and propose a law that anyone proposing chat control - from here on out - gets banished for life from entering European soil ever again.
I am in favour of this proposal.
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The fuck is happening over there? Was there lead in the water?
Authoritarianism, duh. It’s a global thing.
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I think they already dropped the phone number req, not sure thoughNo, still required. However, you can have a username of sorts to give to people and block finding you by phone number in the platform.
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time to make my own shitty ass software to deal with this stuff
Let us know when it's ready for Alpha testing. Most of us will gladly give it a shot and help iron it out.
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...run a country by myself? I suppose it's possible.
Where do I apply for citizenship? Non-resident citizen, as I still need to work to survive
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Authoritarianism, duh. It’s a global thing.
You're answering the how, but I'm asking for the why.
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Ugh, this shit again...
Are there any initiatives out there to call a stop to this? Or even better, initiatives to introduce legislation that forbids setting up this kind of surveillance infrastructure altogether?
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You're answering the how, but I'm asking for the why.
Financial issues among the general populace due to consolidation of wealth > oligarchs create propaganda that brown people are to blame > uneducated masses vote for authoritarians with empty promises
It's the same program human civilisation has know for millenia
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How do these idiots not realize they're just free labor for fascists waiting to take over the surveillance systems they're building? Anyway, good luck preventing people from sending PGP encrypted emails.
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No, still required. However, you can have a username of sorts to give to people and block finding you by phone number in the platform.
Ah, that's what I was thinking of then
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It's not the EU yet. It's a group of activists from Denmark. There wasn't even preliminary voting on it yet.
Doesn't mean we need to be complacent of course, but so far nothing happened.