What can I do about it?
The EU politicians are back trying to pass chat control again [1]
This is where they backdoor encryption... despite this idea being voted down multiple times already.
It's ironic that Socialist Lefties don't want to honor Democracy.
[1a] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_920
Discussion
self-host XMPP and give credentials to your friends. When India banned encryption, Matrix element, and all the other popular ones were blocked from app stores... but not XMPP