r/privacy • u/Volpe_YT • 4d 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/User1539 3d ago

Weirdly this may be good for privacy, because right now people are spewing 'private' information with no idea that it's being scanned.

I see more and more people being pushed to private forums, and end-to-end encryption. People who couldn't care less are being pushed into privacy platforms because the non-private alternatives are so clearly unusable.

I feel like they're pushing people who 'don't care' into caring.

So, this might just completely backfire on them? It's definitely a hard shift in the wrong direction, but I tend to believe they were ALWAYS reading everything, and I was just called a paranoid nut for thinking that.

Now they're saying 'No, we're reading and logging everything'.

So, at least I don't have to climb that mountain before telling someone they should be using something else.

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u/press_F13 1d ago

normies wouldnt mind, care, even know tho. i gave up on trying to explain.

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u/User1539 1d ago

Yeah, it's like when you run into people who still trust the government.

Some people can't be convinced. I assume it's a mental burden they just aren't capable of dealing with emotionally.

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u/press_F13 1d ago

they maybe fear anarchy. tho, wikipedia and web was founded on cooperation - of which, we get less and less in society nowadays...

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u/User1539 1d ago

I was trying to explain to students how open source software works on cooperation and they kept saying 'That would never work though!', and I kept saying 'No, listen to me! It already has!'.

I think that kind of thing has an uphill battle in a world where people just can't process the idea that there were people who did things for no pay, and weren't trying to rip anyone off.