• @smiletolerantly
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    242 days ago

    It’s a good day to be an EU citizen.
    Just like yesterday.
    just like tomorrow.
    Just like any other day except whenever some asshole pushes for ChatControl

    • @froztbyte
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      182 days ago

      watching the chatcontrol shit from afar has been extremely depressing

      and it’s the idea that’ll never die as long as police/security forces are built the way they are right now, which doubly sucks

      • @smiletolerantly
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        72 days ago

        Yeah. It’s also just so incongruous with everything the EU usually (tries to) stand for.

        The best thing would be if the courts decide that mandatory client side scanning is plain illegal. But for that the measure has to pass, so someone can sue. Not a pleasant prospect.

        • @froztbyte
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          62 days ago

          everything the EU usually (tries to) stand for

          only when for itself. there’s a lot to (and which I do) like about the EU from the outside, but also a lot not

          courts decide … measure has to pass

          yeah and the moment the floodgates are open, there will be a long tail of this shit everywhere that’ll take an immensely long time to get cleaned up. and possibly may never be fully cleaned up. just like the current problem of surveillance-based advertising, which I’m not sure whether it can fully go away even if the very business model itself is made untenable - a lot of that infrastructure will die, but some will find new homes in more unsavoury purposes