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"EU government ambassadors set to adopt #ChatControl negotiating mandate tomorrow without discussion, including "voluntary" mass scanning and anonymity-destroying age verification."
What does "adopt #ChatControl negotiating mandate" mean?
Chat controls. Again? How can this even be legal? -- to try and try and try ... against all odds. Doesn't make any sense to discuss that on a bi-yearly basis.
The EU is notoriously, and by design, unresponsive to democratic pressures.

>to try and try and try ... against all odds. Doesn't make any sense to discuss that on a bi-yearly basis.

This is quite naive. These people know what they are doing and it isn't too uncommon to consider certain packages of law multiple times.

They will never stop restricting speech until all criticism of Israel and affiliates is punishable by death
Fuck control-freak, big mother, panopticon bullshit.

Privacy or bust.

The text was watered down, and hopefully it will not clear parliament in any meaningful way. As a dane I wonder if our social democrats are so gong-ho for law this to compensate for the fact that the former king maker in the party was recently jailed on pedophelia charges. But I think they just have a power fetisch.
There's people saying that the 'watered down' version is kinda the same. I lack the legal knowledge to verify but as I understand it, it no longer mandates scanning content, but it does allow it 'voluntarily' and it does mandate that big providers do something against csam, which can only be done... by scanning content. So it's the same proposal just in a more roundabout way.

Also it requires everyone to ID themselves in chat apps so that they can be determined to not be a minor which will kill anonymous chatting :(

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-chat-control-proposal-st...

The EU is turning into a totalitarian bureaucratic nightmare.
It feels like yesterday that it was turned down again. Clearly this is going to pass soon, unfortunately. Idiotic.