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by varispeed 281 days ago
Why this even got to a stage of being official?

It's something a Nazi regime would implement today had it existed.

There is no one in the EU that would tell those people are you fkin insane and give them a sack?

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I assume from your comment history you are from the USA.

It’s surprising how quickly you have forgotten CISPA, EARN IT, etc - which were much more invasive proposals than chat control (slurping of all data of everyone, not just client side scanning for csam).

Of course, now you just cram unrelated shit into “big beautiful bills”, speed it through with minimal oversight using loopholes, and hope no one will notice. Has no one told you how fkin insane that is?

because we still live in the shadows of those times, unfortunately.

there is at least one very bad quasi-dictatorship in the EU, Hungary, where "protecting the children" is used as the perfect propaganda slogen, but when it comes to holding abusers accountable, things are 240% farcical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Nov%C3%A1k_presidentia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G%C3%A1bor_Kaleta...

and of course Hungary supports this. who would have thought.