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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.
Thank god my OS doesn't care about EU regulation
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.
They were smart, those oiled fish-eating goatfuckers. So maybe yes, that - and also sortition and ostracism.
oiled-fish
Sun-rotten fish guts even, called Garum. Or nowadays Colatura di Alici, Pissata from Nizza, etc.
The fuck is happening over there? Was there lead in the water?
Authoritarianism, duh. It’s a global thing.
You're answering the how, but I'm asking for the why. 😅
Evil people doing evil things because they’re evil. They want more than they have any right to and are willing to throw everyone else under the bus.
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
Probably
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?
The annoying thing is that some states like Germany pretty much prohibit surveillance of this extend by constitution. It couldn‘t be made any harder for a legislation like this to pass and yet they keep trying.
Patrick Breyer with the pirate party is my go to example of why small parties and extraparliamentary opposition is important. 99% of the people don't even know him and he's just doing such an sucessful job of protecting them anyway.
Your local Pirate Party and organizations like Bits of Freedom can help out.
Absolutely unacceptable and ridiculous.
Keep them informed, of course they care about your opinion, especially seeing how anyplace else in the world where such things were introduced there were successful revolutions and people doing that ended up in jail. Oops.
Encryption. Is easy.
you know this means they get the keys, right?
Wtf. Is Signal going to be affected? I just recently installed Signal on my phone.
Signal has already stated that they will pull out of the UK if they go through with their version of this, I imagine they'll say the same for the EU.
Get a good VPN, exit it from a non-5 eyes country, and hope they don't start blocking by phone number alone.... and hopefully they'll drop the phone number requirement sooner than later.
Also, welcome to Signal!
~~I think they already dropped the phone number req, not sure though~~
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
STASI enters the chat.
Hey at least Stasi only spied on people they suspected.
That's due to the limitation at the time.
Their kind never leaves the chat, it's a professional habit
Welcome to earth, Everybody Sucks Here.
They won't.
If you're a citizen of an EU country, you should contact your politicians to tell them not to, maybe they won't.
It only has to pass once, and they keep trying.
Some keep trying. That's how democracy and politics works in general.
Many people in the US thought “He won’t”
So, call your representatives.
Yeah. "EU wants this, EU wants that" - bullshit, the EU has no will of its own. A set of politicians within the EU, on the other hand.
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.
The never stop trying. Fucking incompetent dumm politicians.
So, need a non-homicidal, non-EU country to run an XMPP server then...
Or matrix, which I prefer. XMPP has a myriad of issues, and matrix is more modern with a better ecosystem of clients and servers.
Too heavy and bloated, and too centralized in its design philosophy, not to mention big capital flowing through Matrix from Israel and the issues with metadata making it a privacy disaster.
Here's a blog that agrees with me so I don't seem lazy: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp/
I get your blogger's concern over OMEMO versions being out of whack and their encryption choices being all over the place, but other than it being somewhat of a mess, I don't see how it devalues the service as much as he thinks. (a bit melodramatic imo) I've yet to meet someome whos client can't decode my messages or mine theirs and I've never heard of any successful hack, but maybe maybe.
So Canada?
(They do have a history of going a little overboard with the homicidal stuff. But they've come a long way in the last few decades.)
A lot overboard, really. There is a long way to go for truth and reconciliation.
As for data safety, its not looking too great: https://tuta.com/blog/canada-bill-c2-surveillance
Compelling search engines to deindex results, age verification, chat monitoring: stay golden, EU.
