Mastodawn

Chat Control has been repeatedly batted down because it’s a dangerous surveillance overreach. The EU Council should stop these attempts and work on real solutions. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/once-again-chat-control-flails-after-strong-public-pressure

Once Again, Chat Control Flails After Strong Public Pressure

The European Union Council pushed for a dangerous plan to scan encrypted messages, and once again people around the world called out the risks loudly enough that the current Danish presidency has decided to withdraw the plan.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Nov 3

@eff after decades of the same back-and-forth on these topics, I'm now reluctant to accept that this is a misunderstanding problem. This continues to be one of the very few things strongly opposed by citizen regardless of their political affiliation. This is probably the single most clear cut issue with consistent simple messaging from professionals. You can't break encryption "only for the good guys". And yet time and time again someone revives the idea and not only in the EU.

There is no longer an ignorance excuse in these cases. Every such proposal from actual people in power, with access to experts, information and resources is to be seen as openly malicious.

Not that that changes the ways in which it can be counteracted. But it is important to stop pretending that "if they only knew better, they would make better choices". They won't. They are hostile to privacy and civil rights and are perfectly happy to stoop as low as to state that this sacrifice is the one we need to make for the sake of children's safety. Treat them with civility, as nothing else will be productive, but don't absolve them of their malicious intent, by assuming they simply don't know better.

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Seb Nov 4

@eff The European Union will persistently attempt to obtain Chat Control approval. This is a conventional European political strategy to persist in these efforts until the public grows weary and succumbs. This approach has proven successful in the past and will likely be effective again.