Check the lobbyist firm that’s pushing the law in this article - https://netzpolitik.org/2022/dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-hollywood-star-lobbies-the-eu-for-more-surveillance/
Spoiler Alert - it’s Thorn .
Didn’t he testify in favour of a predator?
In short, corruption, corruption, and more corruption from billionnaire oligarchs.
Fuck them, they need to feel the consequences of their bloody own actions.
Good, the EU is largely great, but there still need to be checks and balances when it steps out of line with the stupid regulations like this.
if you are relying on a private corporation to enforce checks and balances for you, you already lost.
The source of this sort of stuff happening is corruption by billionnaire oligarchs. Therefore we need to combat billionnaires by severe taxation, restrictions on algorithms (so that billionnaires can’t use it to further their corporate agenda), and so forth. Oh, and if billionnaires criticise it, all the blackmail against them is there…
No one can acquire that much wealth without being a massive fucking leech on society.
What is protonmail doing about this?
According to their blog, it seems they will sue if asked to break their encryption, so seems their standpoint is similar.
fyi this is from 11 Sept
Good. Fuck the EU; proving that legal commercial software is all poisoned.
That’s not even close to what is happening here.
Correction : fuck hose in favor of this !
The EU is generally fine, thanks
In general any new law that’s is aimed at protecting children is a bad thing, and that’s the problem there are plenty of other ways that would stop child exploitation, but no go for the symptom and not the cause
“Aimed at protecting children”
Oh, is there a law aimed at protecting children effecting software that I’m not aware of? Some anti-dark-pattern thing? Something for epileptics?
