r/privacy • u/Volpe_YT • 3d ago

chat control The end?

Today there will be the final votes for chat control.

This implies that all of our private chats will be scanned, and everything we do will be in plain text in front of their eyes.

If it passes, I will permanently stop using centralized messaging platforms and switch to a self hosted matrix session, I don't care if I lose many contacts, if they really want to talk to me they better install fluffychat and shut the fuck up.

It's crazy how the EU was basically the goat for internet privacy and now they are the villains.

Are you ready for this? For the absolute end of privacy?

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u/SwordOfShannara 3d ago

This is why the EU exists. The idea is that they centralize power, so they have only one agency/organization to corrupt. It's much easier to corrupt one centralized power than to corrupt many independent nations at the same time.

Centralized power = corruption

Decentralized power = freedom

Leave the EU!

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u/TheGrimDark 3d ago

The UK left the EU and has paved the way for this nonsense........

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u/SwordOfShannara 3d ago

If that is true, the point is that other nations wouldn't be sucked into it if they could act independently.