The fascist insistence on “you must defeat me in the marketplace of ideas” and ignoring all past defeats
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the @EUCommission insistence on “you must defeat me in the voting booth” and ignoring all past losses

#ChatControl

RE: https://ohai.social/@dcoderlt/116121167893183550

#ChatControl

Good Idea: Get active against Chat control

IMPORTANT IF YOU LIVE IN THE EU 🇪🇺

A NEW CHATCONTROL VOTE HAS BEEN FORCED FOR TOMORROW, meaning that if this law passes, we are going to see ACTUAL MASS AI SURVEILLANCE FOR MESSAGING eu-wide

yes, this means that NOT ONLY the government could get access to EVERYTHING you say in private, BUT THAT E2E ENCRYPTION MIGHT BE PARTIALLY OR COMPLETELY OUTLAWED IN THE PROCESS, MEANING THE COMPLETE DEATH OF PRIVACY

THANKFULLY, we have a weapon: breaking their balls and making them understand this will fuck up everything and THEY will FOREVER be responsible for it

How do you do that? Easy

Go here: https://fightchatcontrol.eu
Find a politician in your country that is approving this surveillance law
And either send them an e-mail at the address reported there

OR !!!

WAY BETTER, AND THIS IS WHAT I AM DOING MYSELF WITH GREAT SUCCESS

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/

SEARCH THEIR PHONE NUMBER HERE AND CALL THEIR SECRETARY
THESE NUMBERS ARE THE MOST UP TO DATE, THEY WORKED 85% OF THE TIME FOR ME

you can make your own point to be passed to your rep, but the basic thing you have to say goes along the lines of:

"Hello, I’m calling about the Chat Control vote.”
“Please vote in favor of amendments 30 and 35.”
"It does not work effectively, as criminals can easily evade detection while false positives mean 2 in 10 innocent people will be accused of crimes they did not commit"
"State actors can exploit the backdoor you are opening to monitor private communications and spy on our industry secrets"
“And vote against any mass scanning of private messages as that is mass surveillance.”

🙏 to our oddly motivational friends

#privacy #chatcontrol #citizens #espionage #backdoor #masssurveillance #surveillance #thisisinsane

The #EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/?foo=bar

From @chatcontrol site creator, in a HN comment:

> In an unprecedented move, the #EPP is attempting to force a repeat vote tomorrow, seeking to overturn the otherwise principled March 11 decision and instead favouring indiscriminate mass #surveillance. In an attempt to avoid this, the Greens earlier today tried to remove the repeat vote from the agenda tomorrow, but this was voted down.

> As such, [today], the Parliament will once again vote on Chat Control. And unlike March 11, multiple groups are split on the vote, including S&D and Renew. The EPP remains unified in its support for #ChatControl. If you are a #European citizen, I urge you to contact your #MEPs by e-mail and, if you have time, by calling. We really are in the final stretch here and every action counts. I have just updated the website to reflect the votes today, allowing a more targeted approach.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522709

"Would you rather meet a man or a bear alone in the woods?"

Depends. What's the bear wearing?

"Nothing...it's a bear."

Ah, okay. Has it been drinking?

My recent win - being successful in persuading a friend who only reads self-help books to start reading fiction.

Not only did he love reading fiction, and says he'll never go back to self-help, he also said he is going to persuade his other friend (who only read self-help) to try fiction.

Big win indeed.

#books #book #reading #read #fiction