EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance

Post by anonym29 » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 1:03 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #150

casenmgreen wrote: post #141

Seems to me this is a kind of advanced persistent threat. You defeat them one day, but they're still there, and they keep trying, day after day after day.

The purpose of the state is continuity of the state. The state is always the natural enemy of the people - specifically the liberty and privacy of the people. Any time you have a government, you will have a government that wishes to spy on you to make sure you will never attempt a competing government/army.

Post by exasperaited » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 1:04 PM UTC

mapt wrote: post #122

hn_throw2025 wrote: post #91

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I think it’s plausible that the UK electorate are sick of switching between Tories and Labour for the last hundred years, especially as they have become indistinguishable in many respects. They were held back because there wasn’t a plausible alternative that had a hope of being elected. Reform has been leading the polls for nearly all this year, so let’s check in a year to see where they stand. But Labour (especially…

While I'm sure you know much more than I do about UK politics, it seems like some systemic factor pushes both Tories and Labour and whoever else comes close to power, well to the right of their respective voters. In the US, that factor would be campaign contributions and an extremely well-funded conservative propaganda/patronage machine on a war footing. In the UK, is it all about media ownership or something?

Post by 71bw » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 1:05 PM UTC

cbeach wrote: post #99

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America also has a party that always runs on the idea of small government and restoring rights to the people. Every time they get power, they do the exact opposite.

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Post by ax0ar » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 1:06 PM UTC

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What is untrue? You need to verify your identity with Persona to use GPT-5 or GPT 5.1 or a lot of other models. "By filling the checkbox below, you consent to Persona, OpenAI’s vendor, collecting, using, and utilizing its service providers to process your biometric information to verify your identity, identify fraud, and conduct quality assurance for Persona’s platform in accordance with its Privacy Policy and OpenAI…

Are you perhaps a UK citizen? I, a German, can use GPT-5.1 without providing biometric information.

Post by ahsillyme » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 1:06 PM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #83

zelphirkalt wrote: post #50

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This is of course a process, that does not lend itself to be democratic, because it is way longer than most people's attention span. People don't manage to remember things that happened in politics 4 years ago in their own country. Now they are required to follow up on dozens of shitty proposals, all probably illegal in their own country, and those don't even happen in their own country? That divides the number of pe…

People’s attention span has decreased to a matter of days now, if not hours. Have you seen how quickly front page news in the US is forgotten? The democratic process needs a revamp but it shouldn’t be driven by the general populations attention span.