Watchful CitizenSep 7, 2025

Time is running out.

On Sept 12, EU countries vote on chat control - a law that would make every messaging app scan your private chats before you even hit send.

Only six countries openly oppose it right now. Germany and several others are still undecided. MEPs from different parties are warning this is mass surveillance on everyone.

I'm terrified my kids will grow up in a world where every private thought gets scanned before they can share it. You can't have democracy without free speech, and you can't have free speech under surveillance.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu

#privacy #e2ee #chatcontrol #HumanRights #security

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Show threadWatchful CitizenSep 7, 2025

I keep thinking about what this really means for how we think and communicate.

When you know everything you type gets scanned, you start self-censoring before you even realize it. Not just illegal stuff - controversial ideas, unpopular opinions, anything that might flag as "problematic."

But it's worse than that. When they control the infrastructure, they don't just watch - they curate. Block what doesn't align. Amplify what does. Gradually, the information you see shapes the opinions you think are your own.

Look at China - people there genuinely believe they're happy. It's not just fear keeping them quiet. Years of controlled information flow actually changed how they think about freedom, privacy, democracy.

Democracy dies not with soldiers marching in the streets, but with citizens who've been conditioned to want surveillance.

#surveillance #privacy #democracy

Show threadvikkelä
@watchfulcitizen 1984 wasn't meant to be an instruction manual...
Sep 7, 2025 at 1:03pmWeb
Show threadWatchful CitizenSep 7, 2025
@qwc it's scary how close we are now...