JoonqMar 10
Patrick Breyer
🇪🇺 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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Show threadPatrick BreyerMar 10
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.
Show threadPatrick BreyerMar 10
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 🇺🇸). 💰
Show threadPatrick BreyerMar 10
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).
Show threadPatrick BreyerMar 10
5/7 US-based Thorn 🇺🇸, vendor of scanning technology, pays FGS Global €600-700k for Brussels #ChatControl lobbying 💸
Show threadPatrick BreyerMar 10
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 🔒
Show threadPatrick BreyerMar 10

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

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 threadvurkMar 10

@echo_pbreyer I have not heard a single piece of information or news about the @EUCommission that has improved my opinion of them in, well, forever.

Why is this obviously captured puppet show still allowed to unashamedly attack #EU citizens, their #digital rights, #eusovereignty & #gdpR, on behalf of non-european organisations that so clearly have only their own despicable interests at heart?

They do more harm to the EU than all terrorist organisations combined - destroying it from within.

Show threadUriel FanelliMar 11

@echo_pbreyer

changes nothing, "chat control" is not feasible.

Show threadlausMar 10
@echo_pbreyer you should be more aware of memetic context when designing images
Show threadthe vessel of morgannaMar 10
@zauberlaus @echo_pbreyer should've given the "robot" hands a ring tbh
Show threadVint ProxMar 10
@zauberlaus @echo_pbreyer Well, what do you know - it fits!
Show threadTzimisce FleshMar 10
@vintprox @zauberlaus @echo_pbreyer please explain
Show threadEmelia/EmiMar 10

@flesh It resembles one of those Old Internet things that if you don't know, you probably don't want to know. And I say that as someone who knows, and who very much wishes they didn't.

(It resembles "goatse", which I'm not going to describe in further detail, but you may research at your own peril)

Show threadTzimisce FleshMar 10
@becomethewaifu Ah! Ok, I see.
Show threadobscurestarMar 10

@echo_pbreyer

The question is, will this stop them or will it allow shady billionaires to set up dummy corporations in countries they want to corrupt so they can funnel in mountains of money for their agenda while more common and well-intentioned people are not able able to send money from abroad to combat the exploits of wealth?

I don't know about the initiatives, just be careful and vet them thoroughly. You don't wanna be a Citizens United 3rd world shithole like the US.

Show threadspdrnlMar 10
@echo_pbreyer Wow, that this is allowed. Ruthless people.