MultiInformaticoSep 25
Em 

I know there's a general "cause fatigue" with the current state of the world, and I feel it too.

But in my years working in privacy,
I don't think I've seen anything as terrifying as this European Chat Control proposal. And I'm not even European.

Everyone needs to pay
much more attention and be much more worried and outraged about this.

This proposal is the most dystopian glimpse into a horrible authoritarian future I have seen so far in the West.

It looks dismal, but we can still stop it
if we all work TOGETHER NOW โœŠ

There isn't much time left though,
so don't put it to next week.

Democracy dies in silence.

The final vote is on October 14th,
but media and representatives need to receive your messages NOW, so they have enough time to act on it.

#ChatControl #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #StopScanningMe #EUpol #UKpol #USpol #CanPoli

The battle to stop Chat Control continues, act now!

Unfortunately, the battle against Chat Control continues this month. For human rights, for civil liberties, for safety, and for democracy, this privacy-wrecking proposal must be stopped. We need your help to fight with us!

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Show threadEm Sep 23

And please stop thinking you will be able to stay protected, so it doesn't matter.

First, this isn't just about you. Millions of people would still be impacted, including people close to you.

Second, if we do nothing to stop it, you will just end up alone on your now deemed illegal self-hosted Matrix server. And there will be plenty of personal information shared about you by others using the "legal channels" under constant state surveillance.

Being alone using some magical secret tool will not save you. Legality does matter for adoption by the public, and privacy is a communal responsibility. We are in this together, whether you want it or not.

Helping others helps you too.

#ChatControl

Show threadFlorian K.Sep 23

@Em0nM4stodon

And from there it's only a tiny (almost too small to not take) step to exclude, dismiss, publicly shame certain people and groups who do not follow the view of the government...

Just look at the terrible things happening in #America

Show threadEm Sep 23
@winkelmesser 
Show threadmelanie ensign (she/her)Oct 3
@Em0nM4stodon if you find a way to get people to care about others, Iโ€™d love to import your entire inventory to the US!
Show threadEpic NullSep 23

@Em0nM4stodon Small thing

I appreciate you splitting the action statements into "Everyone" and "Europeans", but missed that the first time I read the post.

Show threadEm Sep 23
@Epic_Null Thanks for the feedback! I added emojis to improve clarity ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ
Show threadVincent TunruSep 23

@Em0nM4stodon I don't think the vote happens in the European Parliament, so contacting your MEPs doesn't do much, no?

AFAIK, the vote is among the local governments, so people should be contacting those. And then in particular citizens of countries that are set to vote in favour.

(That said, even if the vote is accepted, Parliament I believe would still need to agree as well, but that would happen down the road.)

Show threadEm Sep 23
@VincentTunru The Fight Chat Control website linked above allows to contact multiple representatives at once, including local representatives.
Show threadPedro Machado SantaSep 23
@Em0nM4stodon Sent another batch of emails to my representatives.
Show threadEm Sep 23
@pedrosanta Wonderful! ๐Ÿ™Œโœจ
Show thread@pineywoozle โ€˜s #3WordNoteSep 25
@pedrosanta @Em0nM4stodon Thank you. Iโ€™m an American but I understand this is a global issue.
Show threadOliwier JaszczyszynSep 23

@Em0nM4stodon: some time ago with @madargon we wrote a piece in Polish on how Chat Control will be ineffective in protecting kids. Though I understand you may not understand Polish, machine translation tools do a decent job.

https://kontrabanda.net/r/chat-control-kon-trojanski-unii-europejskiej-2/

Chat Control: koล„ trojaล„ski Unii Europejskiej ยป Kontrabanda

Niniejszy artykuล‚ publikujemy, ลผeby przedstawiฤ‡ -- naszym zdaniem -- argumenty przeciwko osล‚abianiu szyfrowania end-to-end, ktรณre jest jednym z fundamentรณw bezpiecznej komunikacji, i z ktรณrym Unia Europejska prรณbuje walczyฤ‡ od lat -- na ten moment bezskutecznie.

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Show threadPablo Majster Sep 29
@oaj @Em0nM4stodon @madargon W kaลผdym razie, ja chฤ™tnie poczytam 
Show threadEdoardoSep 23
@Em0nM4stodon as of today, pretty much everybody can read all my exchangesโ€ฆ.
Show threadJu    Sep 23
@Em0nM4stodon forgive me if Iโ€™ve misunderstood the whole process, but I thought I read a toot a few weeks ago (maybe from Quadrature du Net) explaining that the entities voting will be European governments, not MEPs.
And that unfortunately, contacting your representatives will make your voice heard, but not by people who can do something about the vote.
Is that wrong? Is this a parliament vote?
Show threadWoozle HypertwinSep 23
@Em0nM4stodon What will they do to anyone who doesn't comply? How can they even enforce it?
Show threadrefraction Sep 23
@woozle @Em0nM4stodon they will make anything illegal that doesn't comply. that means on any corporate marketplaces things like Signal will simply no longer exist. this already means your normie friends and relatives won't use it. can they check if no one is using it? no, but let's say the cops get access to your phone for an unrelated reason, this is now evidence you're a criminal regardless of whether you used it for sending cute animal pictures to your friends.
Show threadWoozle HypertwinSep 23
@elexia @Em0nM4stodon So I guess it would become kind of like DRM-removal software, or torrent-tracker sites? (Available, but hard to find.)
Show threadrefraction Sep 23
@woozle @Em0nM4stodon yeah, it will become harder to find, more difficult to set up and much less useful cause communication tools are heavily subject to network effects. if the vast majority of the people you talk to won't use it then a lot of your communications will necessarily be under surveillance anyway.
we found it hard to convince people to use Signal already when it's just an easy install, simply because they assume they won't use it and they already have so many apps, etc.
how do you think it will go when you tell them they should install this app, but they can't simply find it on the store app they have, they need to go through something else and that's immediately gonna add complication and oh, it's illegal to use. the only ones that we will still be able to talk to on Signal, etc. are our anarchist friends
Show threadWoozle HypertwinSep 23
@elexia @Em0nM4stodon This approaches Trump levels of awfulness. Gaaah. ๐Ÿ”ฅ
Show threadRRBSep 23
@Em0nM4stodon If there is one thing we have seen with European leaders, it is that they like the idea of reading other people's messages but not other people reading their's. (Sarkozy, Merkel, etc.) Maybe we could just pass a "you first" rule, where any sort of data disclosure applies to European lawmakers for 5 years first.
Show threadBai ShenSep 24

@rrb @Em0nM4stodon Preventing "Rules for thee, not for me" would cause a massive shift in lawmaking. When you don't think you'll be subject to things why bother considering the consequences.

IIRC, Do Not Call came about because some congressperson started getting spammed.

Show threadDavidSep 23

@Em0nM4stodon As @pluralistic elucidates regarding the many causes of ecology becoming recognized as one cause with the development of the concept of ecology, and regarding so many technology-mediated social injustices and all the facets of #enshittification ultimately having a single root, the solution to cause fatigue is to unify causes.

Whether #chatControl and the assault on #privacy, or #RightToRepair, or #censorship, or any of the many forms of bigotry, ultimately, the unifying cause is to reverse the centralization of powerโ€”to redistribute power towards the many: not as power over others, which is the same shit in a different direction, but as power over ourselves. (Distribution of wealth is contained within this, for what is money but, as Beau and #BelleOfTheRanch call it: power coupons.)

Information about you is power over you, and chat control is therefore the unilateral taking of our power to have private lives by leaders of government who themselves have their secrets protected by force of law.

Ultimately, the unifying cause is the antitheses to Wilhoit's law: There must be no group that the law binds but does not protect, and no group that the law protects but does not bind. Anything opposing this cause, including chat control, is just another means to regress towards the original and defining objective of the right: absolute monarchy.

Show threadsnowyfoxSep 24
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Show threadBogdan Buduroiu has movedSep 24
@Em0nM4stodon Europe needs to learn to survive in a post-EU future.
Show threadRobert Bรถttner ist umgezogenSep 24

@Em0nM4stodon

โœ… write an email to all my german EU representatives.

Show threadEm Sep 24
@robertobottoni Amazing! ๐Ÿ™Œ
Show threadBlue LumaSep 24

@Em0nM4stodon does someone know where exactly in the text (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A2022%3A209%3AFIN) would it undermine end-to-end encryption ?

I can't find it when searching with some keywords

EUR-Lex - 52022PC0209 - EN - EUR-Lex

Show threadbovazSep 24
@Em0nM4stodon I wrote to my MEPs and have been pestering my irl circles for months.
Show threadEm Sep 24
@bovaz Wonderful! Keep spreading the word!! ๐Ÿ™Œ
Show threadMultiInformaticoSep 25
@Em0nM4stodon On my part, the email has been sent. Together, let's hope to change the course of such a surreal issue.
Show threadEm Sep 25
@multiinformatico Excellent! ๐Ÿ™Œ
Show threadEbauche (Dronal/Exan)Sep 25
@Em0nM4stodon I wrote to all relevant EU ministers. Have only got one reply thus far (they sounded quite against it, although strangely didn't actually say which way they're voting)
Show threadEm Sep 25
@ebauche Good work!! ๐Ÿ™Œ
Show threadKevin Karhan Sep 25

@Em0nM4stodon it's not enough to #plead or #appease authorities when #Zensursula is heading @EUCommission!

The only feasible way is to "#EncryptHarder!" aand that means teaching folks proper #TechLiteracy as in #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec.

When #governments go #cyberfascist, demand even more #privacy AND enforce it!

  • Don't negotiate with terrorists like said Cyberfascists!!!
Em :official_verified: (@[email protected])

And please stop thinking *you* will be able to stay protected, so it doesn't matter. First, this isn't just about you. Millions of people would still be impacted, including people close to you. Second, if we do nothing to stop it, you will just end up alone on your now deemed illegal self-hosted Matrix server. And there will be plenty of personal information shared about you by others using the "legal channels" under constant state surveillance. Being alone using some magical secret tool will not save you. Legality does matter for adoption by the public, and privacy is a communal responsibility. We are in this together, whether you want it or not. Helping others helps you too. #ChatControl

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