Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe
jali67@lemmy.zip 4 weeks agoWhy are so many European countries doing this? Why the sudden push for chat control and internet restriction laws?
Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe
jali67@lemmy.zip 4 weeks agoWhy are so many European countries doing this? Why the sudden push for chat control and internet restriction laws?
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s understandable from law enforcement perspective that it’s important to snoop on actual criminal communications. The EU has pretty reasonable measures and cracking down on continental-wide criminal activities. However, can we trust authorities that they won’t over reach with the chat control and violate privacy and freedom of speech? Like, come on, nothing good ever came from spying on communications. Catching criminals and/or terrorists is a convenient excuse to spy on dissidents.
We’ve seen it happen in America with the the PATRIOT Act. People dismissed the opposition to it with “nothing to hide” thought terminating cliche, or accuse you of pedophile or terrorist for not wanting spying on communications. Then twenty years later, Americans have a fascist government who allowed a corporate asshole to steal information from the federal government. And those information will be used for surveillance capitalism. The same will happen to us in the EU if we don’t push back hard on this Orwellian desires of politicians.