🚨 BREAKING: Chat Control BLOCKED in EU! 🎉

Germany just refused to back the EU's mass surveillance "Chat Control" regulation after public pressure! This blocks the required majority in the EU Council and derails next week's planned vote.

NICE JOB EVERYONE! 💪

Dr. Patrick Breyer: "This is a tremendous victory for freedom and proves that protest works! Without tireless resistance from citizens, scientists, and organizations, EU governments would have passed a totalitarian mass surveillance law next week."

But the fight isn't over. Chat Control proponents won't give up easily. We must keep the pressure on.

Freedom is only as valuable as our willingness to fight for it. Stay vigilant. Stay loud.

Learn more: https://www.chatcontrol.eu
Source: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/citizen-protest-halts-chat-control-breyer-celebrates-major-victory-for-digital-privacy/

@techlore Yep, the fight against the next attempt starts immediately.

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Whuhoo!!! 🥳 Thank you #Germany

@Em0nM4stodon did you see this?

@techlore dont worry, it will be attempted soon again... and again... 🙄
@techlore muchas felicidades a españa y a los países europeos. Ya es un hecho que chat control está desecho y vencido, pero no hay que bajar la guardia. Chat control está desaprobada pero no sabemos si otra ley similar tome su lugar, por lo que hay que darle pelea si quieren seguir vulnerando nuestros derechos los políticos y burócratas de turno. Hoy Europa ha hablado y la privacidad ha triunfado, por ahora.
@techlore ausge fuckin zeichnet!!
Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

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How can I become German ?

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Germany remembers that Stasi was a bad idea, where as certain other countries' governments arecall "let's try that again, but with modern CCP-inspired surveilance technology".
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Unfortunately it's not that simple. Even in Germany - and especially with the current conservative government - there are many who are lobbying *for* more surveillance and it's a constant struggle to keep them at bay.

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photo of the flag of the European Union on a flagpole, against the backdrop of a blue sky

@techlore #alt4you a blue flag with yellow stars that is the EU Flag seen from bellow, floating in a blue sky with some tiny amount of clouds.

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regarding Chat control.

Do not trust German gov, it is the wet dream of many in power.