This is not the Europe I remember…
I know right? Need more style to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsFnLuqHa20
Buy EU, am I right?
Geezus…
Is the EU not subject to GDPR?
Rules are for the people, not governments
The EU decides what’s GDPR. And it seems recently it decided to not be buggered by those old ideas that are privacy, freedom, etc.
It’s not the EU yet. It’s a group of activists from Denmark. There wasn’t even preliminary voting on it yet.
Doesn’t mean we need to be complacent of course, but so far nothing happened.but so far nothing happened
Things happens frighteningly fast these days. It’s not a matter of being complacent; it’s a matter of budding things in the nip. Which won’t work. Then tirelessly fight back against it.
Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock these last few… weeks. Not even months. Some legislation can go from 0 to 100 extremely quickly if left unchecked.
What activists? I need their names, for personal research reasons.
I don’t know who reintroduced it, but here the original one https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A2022%3A209%3AFIN&qid=1652451192472
How the fuck can you be pro censorship/pro big brother? What kind of idiot do you have to be? Do they just get bags of money to spout out this bullshit?
Does having a lot of money exempt you from this shit? I don’t get it. I can understand detestable people being pro things that make the poor poor and the rich rich. But this affect everyone both poor and rich. The only one benefiting from this are fascist dictators.
It’s not “Danish activists” but rather the government. As a Dane I know how horny these people are to create a fullblown police/nanny state. SVM (the name for the government) is terrible for all of us. Can’t wait to see their voter share drastically diminish at the next election, but clearly they can do a lot of harm first…
I mean, Danish government comprised of people. And some people there are activists about this particular bullshit, so they’re pushing it at every opportunity.
I should’ve been more specific that it’s not just random group of people, but my point was that it’s not the decision of the entire EU (or even the entire Danish government)The SVM government as a whole is huge on expanding surveillance and the police force - I don’t see that it’s just a small group of activists within the parties. I’m just glad other EU countries aren’t biting on this bs
I’m starting to edit idcaboutprivacy more and more often (and that’s not a good thing)
I like the comapirson i heared at Anne Roths(https://systemli.social/@anneroth) talk(German):
You would never say: I don’t need free speech because I have nothing to say. Everyone profits from data privacy and free speech and some people are depending on their life on it.
Dude, I decided to make a personal note with lots of similar links regarding privacy, so that I can provide the source when I discuss these matters with people. But yours in much more thorough - and public. Thanks for saving me a ton of work!
Maybe it’s time to restart some some old Greek traditions and propose a law that anyone proposing chat control - from here on out - gets banished for life from entering European soil ever again.
I am in favour of this proposal.
They were smart, those oiled fish-eating goatfuckers. So maybe yes, that - and also sortition and ostracism.
oiled-fish
Sun-rotten fish guts even, called Garum. Or nowadays Colatura di Alici, Pissata from Nizza, etc.
Garum is Roman. Oiled goatfuckers were Greek.
Oh, brainfart.
But to be exact, they likely had that too. Garum was in ancient to medieval times europe what soy sauce is to asia nowadays.
Speaking of Garum, it’s an interesting thing.
Absolutely unacceptable and ridiculous.
Keep them informed, of course they care about your opinion, especially seeing how anyplace else in the world where such things were introduced there were successful revolutions and people doing that ended up in jail. Oops.
We couldn’t have said it better!
Agree
Ugh, this shit again…
Are there any initiatives out there to call a stop to this? Or even better, initiatives to introduce legislation that forbids setting up this kind of surveillance infrastructure altogether?
Patrick Breyer with the pirate party is my go to example of why small parties and extraparliamentary opposition is important. 99% of the people don’t even know him and he’s just doing such an sucessful job of protecting them anyway.
Thank you for helping us stop chat control! We from the Swedish Pirate Party are strongly against this!
Well we in the Swedish Pirate Party are strongly against this! We have been fighting since the beginning against Chat Control! Feel free to DM me and I can even try to find a Pirateparty near you or atleast a party who are aligned similarly!
The annoying thing is that some states like Germany pretty much prohibit surveillance of this extend by constitution. It couldn‘t be made any harder for a legislation like this to pass and yet they keep trying.
Your local Pirate Party and organizations like Bits of Freedom can help out.
Thank god my OS doesn’t care about EU regulation
As long as owning a device that allow full E2E encryption without spyware isn’t illegal.
It bears repeating a lot of time : the technology to circumvent these things exist, and will continue to exist. However, there’s nothing preventing obtuse lawmakers from making it illegal to own. And then, it’s just a matter of catching someone and finding some rooted android phone in his pocket.
Your OS doesn’t, put the messaging apps that your friends/family/coworkers use do.
And no, you can’t convince them to switch messager, I tried.
Currently, I, my entire Family and everyone I know use Signal. And everyone that doesn’t want to, can contact me via Matrix or XMPP, which literally no one ever does, even thought I know a lot of IT and CS people. I keep them as options regardless, just to offer them to people.
I mean, there is also phone, SMS and email of course, but people seem to prefer a new messenger over actually contacting me in any of these ways. And then I’m always like “look, you can choose one of countless ways to contact me, if you like none of them, that’s a you-problem”.
I, at least, managed to get most of my family to switch. I told them it was the only way they’d get pictures and updates of my son. The one small victory I’m satisfied with.
You don’t have to say everything on those apps, tho, just do basic stuff and for longer convos request an encrypted chat app.
And no, you can’t convince them to switch messager, I tried.
Have you used the gambling addiction and honeypot comparisons?
Or opium smoking in China one?
If somebody makes a functioning NOSTR client similar to Telegram in experience - maybe that will be convenient enough.
And what do you think that means the moment your OS connects to, oh I don’t know, the rest of the fucking planet?
STASI enters the chat.
Hey at least Stasi only spied on people they suspected.
That’s due to the limitation at the time.
Their kind never leaves the chat, it’s a professional habit
The fuck is happening over there? Was there lead in the water?
It’s not lead, it’s Russians
Authoritarianism, duh. It’s a global thing.
You’re answering the how, but I’m asking for the why. 😅
More money. More power. More control over millions of people. Control over what you say? Not their problem; just control everything.
The ability to deny other what they want is a drug to some people; make them feel superior.
Evil people doing evil things because they’re evil. They want more than they have any right to and are willing to throw everyone else under the bus.
Financial issues among the general populace due to consolidation of wealth > oligarchs create propaganda that brown people are to blame > uneducated masses vote for authoritarians with empty promises
It’s the same program human civilisation has know for millenia
https://feddit.org/post/16373509
War is likely.
Probably
They won’t.
If you’re a citizen of an EU country, you should contact your politicians to tell them not to, maybe they won’t.
It only has to pass once, and they keep trying.
Contacting politicians directly is good, but joining orgs like the Electronic Frontier Foundation or Privacy International multiplies your impact since they have lawyers and can actualy challenge these laws in court.
Some keep trying. That’s how democracy and politics works in general.
Many people in the US thought “He won’t”
So, call your representatives.
I agree that calling representatives can always be a good idea. But you cant compare the US and the EU.
There is no “he”, there is no president. No single person can run nor ruin it.
It’s simply not as fragile, but again, always let your voice be heard like you suggest. Just in case.
Yeah. “EU wants this, EU wants that” - bullshit, the EU has no will of its own. A set of politicians within the EU, on the other hand.
The EU also does not have a president like you know from countries. There is no supreme leader, and laws are made with every member state involved.
Nah, a logical OR in their favor is not how democracy should work.
With SKG going as well as it is, wouldn’t an ECI on chat control be in order?
Welcome to earth, Everybody Sucks Here.
Encryption. Is easy.
you know this means they get the keys, right?
Nah, just hold your secret key in secret. It’s just basic math.
So, need a non-homicidal, non-EU country to run an XMPP server then…
So Canada?
(They do have a history of going a little overboard with the homicidal stuff. But they’ve come a long way in the last few decades.)
A lot overboard, really. There is a long way to go for truth and reconciliation.
As for data safety, its not looking too great: https://tuta.com/blog/canada-bill-c2-surveillance
Oh ffs… my best VPN server is in Canada lol
I’d almost say lol, get a VPS in China.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and they have zero say over what I do, only what they do. China could demand and scream and bitch all they want over an encrypted set of programs and you’d never have to care, move to another domain and provider and copy-paste. Lock it down, only use it with encryption and let the wolves huff and puff until they’re blue in the face.
It’s more about the latency since it’s right over the border (<30ms). It’s also a full 10Gbps so I can let family/friends use it and don’t have to worry if a few of them are pulling the full 1Gbps from home connection. Doubt I’m gonna be able to match both of those with a Chinese VPS :/
Honestly looking at Mexican datacenters right now. Some are basically the same distance, just in the opposite direction lol
Mexico actually sounds kinda brilliant, but who seems important. OVH has servers in Mexico, but I can imagine some hosters would get the Feds on the line and go “sure, here’s his data”.
That’s true, ICE & Co. are also all over Mexico right now because of the cartels. The whole border lock down and immigrant round-up thing is only half of their current force. And one of the big things they’ve been doing down there is monitoring/tapping their communication networks.
So yeah, never mind, probably not a good idea. If it was just for torrenting or something it’s probably fine, but beyond that I wouldn’t push it.
Or matrix, which I prefer. XMPP has a myriad of issues, and matrix is more modern with a better ecosystem of clients and servers.
Too heavy and bloated, and too centralized in its design philosophy, not to mention big capital flowing through Matrix from Israel and the issues with metadata making it a privacy disaster.
Here’s a blog that agrees with me so I don’t seem lazy: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp/
I get your blogger’s concern over OMEMO versions being out of whack and their encryption choices being all over the place, but other than it being somewhat of a mess, I don’t see how it devalues the service as much as he thinks. (a bit melodramatic imo) I’ve yet to meet someome whos client can’t decode my messages or mine theirs and I’ve never heard of any successful hack, but maybe maybe.
or run one by yourself?
…run a country by myself? I suppose it’s possible.
Where do I apply for citizenship? Non-resident citizen, as I still need to work to survive 😕
