That was just a trial balloon to see how far you can go. A slightly softened version is introduced at a favorable moment and nobody notices because everyone thinks they have won.
Thanks to nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 and everyone who spoke up about the EU attempt at breaking end to end encryption for chat with pre-publishing AI reporting bots. The proposal is dead! Activism and pressure can work.
https://stackdiary.com/eu-council-has-withdrawn-the-vote-on-chat-control/
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Also, almost no one (outside of Bitcoiners and crypto anarchists) seem to care about how the freedom to transact diminishes by the day, which undermine all our freedoms.
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