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The EU Commission is lying open on social media about chat control. Tomorrow EU governments debate about Chat control 2.0 Use the fightchatcontrol.eu email tool to make yourself heard

EUCommission Mastodon post

‘Danger to Democracy’ patrick-breyer

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

they are gonna keep at it until it passes. the only way to stop this is deposing them.

[–] wolfiedafloof@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't see how we can stop it. If they don't succeed this year, they will try the next, and if not next, they will try the year after until it works. How do we stop this? We can't. Its like cancer. You can only slow the process down by being against them. Thats it :/ we all will be surveiled and there is nothing to stop it.

All we do as privacy advocates is to jump around. If one thing becomes illegal, we jump over to something else that provides privacy once again.

We are slowly becoming cashless, but new tech arrived and we started with crypto like monero. Once crypto is banned, we find different methods in staying anonymous or private :)

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

we depose them. they can't try again next year if they are not in power. of course that's easier said, but there is an out that's historically effective against abuse of power.

solutions like alternative apps and oses and techniques are always an individualistic bandaid that should be thought of as temporary until they close the loophole.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dictators never leave peacefully.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

no, they don't. though if it were that easy we wouldn't need to worry that much about things like chat control.