Chat Control Is Close to Being Adopted, and Its Worse
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The Chat Control legislation is nearing adoption in the EU, sparking outrage and concerns over its potential impact on anonymous communication and privacy, with commenters discussing ways to resist or circumvent the law.
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That sounds even more terrifying than the original chat control! How is this the back door “compromise”?
It is worse than the original.
> I’m mad too, but the solution is not to want to vote for someone even worse.
When trump signs a bill to outlaw encryption, let's talk. Until then, ON THIS SPECIFIC ISSUE trump is very much not "someone even worse"
I am in the US, but I’ll do my best to build and promote tools and services that EU citizens can use to circumvent this.
- Keep your mainstream big platform accounts for discovery and casual conversations. Feed big platforms giga-tons of crap data to give the AI indigestion and diarrhea.
- Set up open source platforms to tinker on, share with small groups of friends. Focus on cattle vs kittens keeping servers ephemeral and mostly-stateless. Keep data encrypted and backed up to secure locations, logs in tmpfs or /dev/null. Practice live migrations and secure wipes of old nodes.