Patrick BreyerMar 10
🇪🇺 1/7 🌍 Foreign-funded lobby groups from outside the EU are pushing #ChatControl with misleading propaganda. They want to #PassTheLaw to scan your chats, but who are they and who's paying them? Let's expose the network.
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2/7 The players:
• The Internet Watch Foundation is 🇬🇧UK-based and funded by the tech industry. Often cited in this debate—but not EU-based.
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3/7 • Then Brussels-based Eurochild—largely 🇪🇺EU Commission-funded (yep, the #ChatControl proposers) plus Oak Foundation funding from 🇨🇭Switzerland (foundation led by ex-US diplomat 🇺🇸). 💰
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4/7 • Don't forget ECPAT International—🇹🇭Thailand HQ, funded by 🇸🇪Sweden (a #ChatControl hawk) & 🇨🇭Swiss Oak Foundation. ECPAT hired 3 PR firms for 2024-25 to lobby for #ChatControl (Future Advocacy, EU Strategy, Purpose Campaigns).
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5/7 US-based Thorn 🇺🇸, vendor of scanning technology, pays FGS Global €600-700k for Brussels #ChatControl lobbying 💸
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6/7 ✅ Let's focus on what works. Security by design. Clean the web. Mandatory takedowns. Flooding systems won't work. Back the EU Parliament's balanced 2023 proposal—it fights grooming/abuse without mass scanning. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#epmandate 🔒
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7/7 🎭 Who's really protecting kids—pushing feasible fixes or foreign-funded PR?

Call your MEPs before tomorrow's vote on #ChatControl: https://fightchatcontrol.eu
#StopScanningMe

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