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by surgical_fire 8 hours ago
This is bullshit. No "nascent political movement" spread with user-to-user end-to-end encrypted messages. People spread their shitty opinions as loudly as they can on public platforms. Those already scanned.
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> Microsoft accused of leaking data of Dutch civil servants working on tech laws to US government

https://cybernews.com/tech/microsoft-dutch-data/

This is precisely the type of surveillance that can be achieved by breaking encryption or by placing local control agents on devices.

A chat control mandate massively empowers big tech and the US government hosting those corporations.