Really ironic that Britain left the EU, but is even further ahead down this road. British humour I guess.
The chat control bill also has age verification to identify child users.
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#132So what is the real solution? Meaning the solution that an individual could use themselves, without further coordination, to insulate themselves from this policy. Is it an Android distribution? Jailbreaking? Custom builds?
The real solution is to stop the law while it is still being negotiated.
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#133A little context here since this website is highly misleading: - EU Council holds more power in Europe than EU Parliament - EU Council is pushing this regulation - this website misrepresents the positions of most members of EU Parliament - it shows "Supports" despite most of them being "Unknown" Overall, while people should be encouraged to contact their MEPs, I suspect many are already very informed on this & strong…
The whole site has that vibe-coded-website look. I wonder if a lot of the information on the site was essentially hallucinated too.
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#135Please also fight mandatory age verification with prison sentences. The European Parliament has already voted in favor of a law that mandates age verification for pornography with a one year prison sentence. It was included as a last minute amendment into this bill [1]. See "Amendment 186". It has been completely missed by news organizations and even interest groups. The full accepted article reads: "Disseminating po…
Maximum of at least one year? Is there some kind of award for how nonsensical a law can be?
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, that’s the worst conclusion to draw. The EU is the only hope we have if we don’t want to become a toy for the US and China. We need to save the EU from these people!
there's no 'saving' the EU imo. I would consider voting to exit if given the opportunity
To what end though? What is your country’s opinion worth globally without the EU? It’s not that I like the current state of affairs, but the alternative is so much worse.
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#137I was very pissed at this, and when I read this part I couldn't continue, it boiled my blood. > *EU politicians exempt themselves from this surveillance under "professional secrecy" rules. They get privacy. You and your family do not. Demand fairness.
Yeah this really annoys me, because it appears to show that any pretense that the law applies to everyone equally is disappearing fast.* If it at least affected politicians you could write it off as "idiotic idea that wasn't thought through in the slightest", but here it's clear that they have some idea how stupid and dangerous the law is, and see themselves as worth exempting from it instead.
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Genuinely curious where you would suggest going. The US isn't better and has been doing this shit since the patriot act.
Thailand, Japan, Philippines, El Salvador, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Kazakhstan. There are a lot of options. But absolutely leave the EU, UK or USA and let them all suffer in their own self-induced dystopian nightmare.
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#139Please also fight mandatory age verification with prison sentences. The European Parliament has already voted in favor of a law that mandates age verification for pornography with a one year prison sentence. It was included as a last minute amendment into this bill [1]. See "Amendment 186". It has been completely missed by news organizations and even interest groups. The full accepted article reads: "Disseminating po…
That's not only asinine but also poorly worded. How is this getting approved?
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#140I'm French and every idiot supports it, even the so-called left. There is nothing I can do except donate money every month to GrapheneOS ( https://grapheneos.org/donate ). Democracy is dead for me.
Not sure what you call the "so-called left", but the actual left (LFI) certainly doesn't support Chat Control
Yes, this makes no sense. No way they got 100% of every MPs to agree on this. They never agree on anything. I think the website took the fact that the country supports it and applied that position to each of its MPs.