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What you can do: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo

Contact your MEP: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home

Edit: Article linked is from 2002 (overview of why this legislation is bad), but it is coming up for a vote on the 19th see https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/council-to-greenlight-chat-control-take-action-now/

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[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 13 points 6 months ago

Yea, it is clear if there is just one closed-source app. But if we're talking XMPP/Matrix - they have multiple open-source clients, even if some of them does introduce scanning, no way it wouldn't be forked to remove it.

[-] ByteWelder@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

If a messaging service is non-compliant, the government could theoretically take action with court orders against domain owners, server owners or pursue anyone hosting a node in case of a distributed setup. In a worse case scenario, they might instruct ISPs via court orders to block these services (e.g. The Pirate Bay in some countries)

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Yeah let's have them block github. I kind of want to see a federated git hosting platform integrated with the fediverse

[-] kbotc@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

They literally will do that. GDPR shows that they will go after big American companies (That’s the point, a huge chunk of this is protectionism to build a tech industry in the EU that they control)

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 6 months ago

And if an app like Signal bypasses blocks, having it installed could become a crime.

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago

Where I live, a lot of popular services, including major foreign social media and torrents everyone uses, are blocked - yet they still have a massive userbase.

And since the scanning is supposed to be client-side, how would a server check if the scanning was really performed? What if the server does receive and log the needed responses, just to be safe, but the client actually just sends them automatically while lacking such functionality?

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