It’s always better to be worried for nothing than not worried for something you didn’t pay enough attention to. Even if something fascist has no chance of passing, you should still resist it as loudly and as aggressively as possible, every single time.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Shit, I’ve heard so much gear mongoring about this for so long. Also on here.
The EU’s stance have never been anything other than no chat control. All everyone else have pointed out are proposals not even reaching the votes, or got voted down.
I get that you are afraid that the EU would do it anyway and pass the proposals. But they never did, and even if it got voted for today, it’s not even final and needs to go to the council who is openly against it.
But so nice that this is FINALLY put down.
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Glad to know. I’d rather be overly cautious than overly careless about privacy, tho (looks across the Atlantic)
hector@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
Says the guy overlooking not the other trojan horse of age controls being brought inside the walls. Your analysis is not so good.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
That “trojan horse” is nothing but a paper tiger since age control will be managed in a completely privacy-friendly way. It is a non-issue. So that is why it is being “overlooked”
The check will send nothing more than a yes/no verification, and no other forms of identification.
And the information will be managed by a governmental institute that already has all that information.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
sorry but you are so naive
hector@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
Jesus christ, you are a mark for some con artist with your naivety, no offense bro. Ha.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
If you can’t understand the technology behind it, please refrain from calling other people names. It makes you look ignorant.
The EU is very privacy focused, as should be apparent with the post you are literally commenting on.
Your russian propaganda holds no power here. It didn’t work with chat control, and it won’t work with age verification either.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
A lot of lemmings really hate the idea of democracy actually working somewhere in the world.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
Yeah, tankies can’t handle it.
balsoft@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
This is a really naive take - this amendment (which requires message scanning to be targeted) passed with a slim majority and could well have failed. In that case the existing mass surveillance (“voluntary scanning”) would probably keep happening at least until 2028.
The council meanwhile is overwhelmingly pro-message-scanning, and they (together with the commission) are the ones who are pushing to break e2e encryption. There will now be talks between the three institutions to decide on how to proceed. Sadly I expect that some “compromise” will be reached eventually.