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Re: Chat Control is already live on Facebook Messenger

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First, Chat Control refers to a proposition in the EU, which has not been accepted at this point. So no, it's not Chat Control. > People believe private chats to be, well, private. You have to choose an app that seems private enough. Signal is one of the few, because it can be audited easily. > as if the problem isn’t the censorship, but my failure to follow the rules. The problem I see is that you disagree with how…

> First, Chat Control refers to a proposition in the EU, which has not been accepted at this point. So no, it's not Chat Control. The EU proposition of Chat Control is the proposition to make it mandatory. Facebook has already been performing it voluntarily (as I've discovered today). > The problem I see is that you disagree with how Meta handles Messenger, but still use it. Chat Control or not, there is no law preve…

I don't know about social media companies, but all web forums will 'moderate' 1v1 chats because of spam controls.

Re: Chat Control is already live on Facebook Messenger

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Everyone should be selfhosting a matrix server, with a guest web inbox. Then, some ppl may connect into networks if they want. Lets not forget that Signal is also a for-profit company. IMs should be like DNS, email, or IRC.

> Lets not forget that Signal is also a for-profit company. Source? Last time I checked it was a non-profit. But that's not the point. The point is that the Signal app is open source, so you can check what it does. Matrix is inferior to Signal.

Every company is for profit. OpenAI was a “non-profit”. “Worse” and “good enough” can be true at the same time. Selfhosting signal is inferior to selfhosting matrix [0].

[0] https://softwaremill.com/can-you-self-host-the-signal-server...

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