EU chat control law will ban open source operating systems
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#2Seems high time for some civil disobedience. Break the law collectively, let them seek to enforce their ridiculous/draconian laws and explain the knock on effects in court.
Alternatively, open source projects that may be effected can withdraw access to their sites and source code and cite the law. Hopefully they forked the code already and don’t need any future updates.
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#3It is almost impossible to obey this law. It shows how uninformed the EU lawmakers are when it comes to technology.
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#4I'm so tired of it all. Countless times it has been tried to enact laws like this. And it's not just this surveillance law that depresses me, reading up on the cyber resilience act just feels to me like it will suck even more fun out of software development, at least in a professional context.
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#5It seems that application stores would only be a tiny fragment of what would be affected by the law. Basically everything involving facilitating communications between users would be subject to draconian surveillance and reporting requirements. This is not the way a free or open society progresses.
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#6As usual, people who aren't familiar with the culture of software write laws that restrict software. I sincerely hope this will just be a scare like Article 10 was, but it'd be much better that whoever these insane proposals are coming from could be stopped.
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#7"The proposed Chat control EU law will"
If it's a proposed law then it should read
"The proposed Chat control EU law would"
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#8I'm curious to know how likely this is to pass. EU laws are proposed by the council, but passed by the (much more representative and democratic) parliament.
The EU has fairly good form in terms of passing common-sense tech laws (see; GDPR) so I'd be skeptical that this is any more than a dumb proposal destined for failure.
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#9I am the first person to appreciate the pro-online-privacy legislation from the EU in the last couple of years.
Yet...How can the same organization be behind this? Is it a result of the sheer size of the org, with malevolent people reeking their ugly heads? A more cynical "privacy legislation as a smoke screen with totalitarian measures in the backend"?
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#10It is almost impossible to obey this law. It shows how uninformed the EU lawmakers are when it comes to technology.
Only few big players will obey this law. Maybe that's the point EU lawmakers were going for...