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Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption

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By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messag

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What is wrong with the eu? Why do they need to always ban end to end encryption?
- Lobbyists.
  
  Lobbiests are probably the one reason they haven't passed such anti-privacy laws, actually.
  
  There’s lobbying on both sides
- As I remember at the moment partly Von Der Leyen, the current Commission president. She is a German Christian democrat and apparently bit with capital C. Meaning she has bit of a moral panic streak on her of the "won't you think of the children" variety. As I understand this current proposal is very much driven by her.
  However her driving it doesn't mean it sail through to pass as legislation. Some whole memberstate governments are against the encryption busting idea.
  
  And the fact that Ylva Johansson, being technologically illiterate as well as a close bed buddy with companies in the surveillance industry that stand to earn a crap load of money doesn't help...
  
  Von Der Leyen is a swinger clubber
- I'm sure they will tell you it's weighing the security (against terrorists, criminals, etc) of the many against the security (from seeing dick pics or messaging a mistress) of the few.
  
  The thing that always kills me about that phrase is "the needs of the many" are "the needs of the few," because "the many" is just a gaggle of "fews."
- 5 eyes. Politicians are puppets.
  
  Wait, you have a choice to vote for either puppet 1, puppet 2, or puppet 3. Your choice matters! .. as long as the politicians podiums are provided by the rich we don't have a real say.

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