And “Chat Control” isn’t even the only thing like this in the pipeline. There’s the so-called “security by design” bullshit (which does the opposite of what then name implies) that’s actually even worse than Chat Control and has also been worked on in secret, and which’d include mass scale surveillance of not just photos but pretty much everything, and is much more likely to pass than Chat Control.
Comment on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 months agoThey will keep trying again and again and again. The assault on privacy has been going on for decades and it will never stop.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 4 months ago
oce@jlai.lu 4 months ago
2001 especially.
Dasnap@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You’ve gotta defend for an infinite amount of time, but they’ve only gotta succeed once.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 4 months ago
Yep, and as I pointed out in another comment in this thread, Chat Control isn’t the only piece of legislation like this that’s in the works.
Considering that the extreme right just won big, I have no doubt that one of these fascist surveillance packages will go through. Yeah, at first it may be used for catching criminals, until it isn’t
Grippler@feddit.dk 4 months ago
Nono, it will always only be used to catch criminals, that won’t change…it’s what makes someone a criminal that changes.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 4 months ago
Ha, fuckin’ touché
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 4 months ago
Actually it was the Left wing that mainly voted yes for this. Just saying.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 4 months ago
Source? In Germany at least that’s not the case, it’s mainly the conservatives who push for it. In the original vote, only the greens clearly opposed it. Later on, SPD (center-left) and FDP (liberal) changed course to also oppose it. Couldn’t find results for other countries though, so I’m genuinely curious.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 4 months ago
Doesn’t change who’s in charge now
uis@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Someone won big yachts from Putin.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 4 months ago
Yes. Technically, a similar vote could repeal the law just as easily but there is a history of governments not giving their power away easily; implementing it also sets a precedent and creates technical enforcement options for other governments willing to go through with something similar in the future, or for hackers to exploit because gov-rooted devices will remain in operation for years after the potential repeal.