Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/chat-control-back-menu-eu-it-still-must-be-stopped-0

44•latexr•1h ago

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billy99k•1h ago

grumble grumble..something about brexiters being right..grumble..grumble.

guerrilla•1h ago

You must be kidding. The UK is far worse than this and still paying the price for Brexit as well.

Macha•1h ago

This would be more believable if the UK hadn't already passed this type of legislation.

dblacc•1h ago

has it ?

Macha•1h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023

tharne•1h ago

It continues to amaze me how much time Europeans spend criticizing the U.S. for all of our nonsense, while they too are sprinting toward a more authoritarian future.

Hikikomori•1h ago

It's almost like its different people.

piva00•41m ago

It is also the same people, criticising the USA for the bullshit they do, and the EU for the bullshit they do.

Not sure why it needs to be camp X vs camp Y, the same people can criticise both...

shafyy•1h ago

We can criticise the US and the EU at the same time.

latexr•54m ago

There’s no incongruence in criticising both. Don’t be a tribalist arguing for one over the other; criticise each for what they do wrong, and praise each for what they do right.

Argue for a better world for all instead of wishing for others to be worse off.

nickslaughter02•1h ago

I think many outside of EU dismiss this as an EU only thing and don't think much about it.

1. Have you ever texted someone from EU? You are now chat controlled too.

2. EU is pumping billions to foreign countries to promote EU values. How long until they condition this "help" with chat control?

NSPG911•1h ago

what is going on with society now what happened to a fun internet

nickslaughter02•1h ago

EU countries will vote on the proposal on October 13th during the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting.

latexr•58m ago

It’s on the 14th. From the article:

> Despite strong opposition, Denmark is pushing forward and taking its current proposal to the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on October 14th.

Eddy_Viscosity2•36m ago

What is it about the Danes in particular that make them want to be spied on and surveilled by the government? Is it some sort of weird national fetish?

latexr•4m ago

The Danish people don’t want it, there’s even a parliamentary petition against it.

https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115241974344102261

It’s just that the current Presidency of the Council of the European Union is Danish, so they are the ones with the authority to push this now.

https://danish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu

hugoromano•59m ago

Politicians promoting Chat Control are handing an advantage to dictatorships, organized crime, and adversaries of the European Union or perhaps they're assets of those very adversaries.

nickslaughter02•49m ago

> or perhaps they're assets of those very adversaries

They have damaged the image of EU to the point that I think it's plausible.

thw_9a83c•20m ago

It's not even active yet, and I have already started to have an icky feeling when using things like WhatsUp. Who will watch the watchers?

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