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Gods I'm too fucking old and tired to rehearse the 'don't break E2E encryption' debate AGAIN, but here we are. This time the novel twist is 'client...

Well this is admirably concise and direct by Germany's justice ministry. "Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion." THANK YOU. Without Germany's support, Chat Control is dead in Council. For now at least. Some serious introspection now needed by DG HOME for its antidemocratic draft law and illegal lobbying. www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2025/1008_Chatkontrolle.html (h/t @npub1cewa...lmfe View quoted note →

Gods I'm too fucking old and tired to rehearse the 'don't break E2E encryption' debate AGAIN, but here we are. This time the novel twist is 'client side scanning' of every European's device for CSAM, just in case. I no longer make many arguments on principle. This open letter to the Irish minister who supports pre-emptive surveillance for everyone merely asks him to imagine how he'll feel when, inevitably, the powers are used against him:

Chat control in Europe, an open letter to the Irish Minister who wants to scan all our messages — Crooked Timber

I'm officially writing a book! "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. It uses ecology to show why we've got such a toxic technology monoculture through almost the whole tech stack, and how to change that. And crucially, the people who already are. Hell, most of them are here in the Fediverse. The more power we take from tech oligarchs, the more we take from Trump and other authoritarians. I plan to show how.