let ‘em!
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, BUIDL a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
~ Buckminster Fuller #quotestr
URGENT: PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY COMMUNICATION RIGHT NOW!
on 4th Sept 2024 #ChatControl regulation representatives of EU goverments will resume work based on a secret document according to Patrick #Breyer, former Member of the European Parliament.
Help to mobilize everybody to defend our #privacy of communication and its developers, investors!
If no preventive actions from your side now, this regulation will be endorsed on 12/13 December 2024.
According to the draft regulation dated 28 May (Council document 9093/24), ChatControl deploys to do, for instance:
🔻 “upload moderation”, users of apps and services with chat functions are to be asked whether they accept the indiscriminate and error-prone scanning and possibly reporting of their privately shared images, photos and videos.
🔻Scan by “artificial intelligence” technology previously unknown images and videos;
🔻If a user refuses the scanning, they would be blocked from sending or receiving images, photos, videos and links (Article 10).
🔻End-to-end encrypted services such as Whatsapp or Signal would have to implement the automated searches “prior to transmission” of a message (so-called client-side scanning, Article 10a).
During the last discussion on 24 May, the Council Legal Service made it clear that indiscriminate chat control scanning of non-suspects is still envisioned and remains a violation of fundamental rights.
Nevertheless, most EU governments are determined to go ahead. https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2024/05/2024-05-28_Council_Presidency_LEWP_CSAR_Compromise-texts_9093.pdf
🌎 Tell your goverment and parliamentarians, that the proposal should be rejected altogether!
🔴Is your government in favour?
→ Ask for an explanation and for your government to revert its course.
🟡Is your government abstaining?
→ Ask why and demand that they take a strong stance against chat control.
🟢Is your government opposing?
→ Great, but take a closer look at the reasoning: Some governments like #Germany e.g. only object to the scanning of encrypted communications, but are fine with the indiscriminate scanning of other private and public communication, with the end of anonymous communication by requiring age verification, or with introducing a minimum age for “risky” communication apps. Also critical governments need to do more, exert their influence in the Council of the EU and agree on a joint list of necessary fundamental changes to the proposal. Absent such revision they should ask the European Commission to withdraw the chat control proposal as it stands.
🔴 In favour of ChatControl: France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden.
🟡Abstained: Estonia, Netherlands, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Austria
🟢 Opposed the proposal: Germany, Poland
When reaching out to your government, the ministries of the interior (in the lead) of justice and of digitisation/telecommunications/economy are your best bet. You can additionally contact the permanent representation of your country with the EU: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organization/COREPER/
Discussion
You are writing your arrogant response to me probably holding western passport/residence or being born in the western world, working in western countries.
You use western language learned by very privileged groups of people in the world.
If you are open source developer you will need financial resources and non of the authoritarian regimes will provide you or give contract to develop freedom tech.
You will need to apply for funding in the western countries, organizations like nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f .
With all said above: try to go to Mali and develop, fundraise living there, but not in western world. Im curious to learn about your experience and results.
So for sure, it is important to develop but please decrease your level of ignorance and just do a little effort to understand my position why we need to have safe regulatory environment in western world.
seriously now!?
you believe that the way to resist is by contacting the “government”?
we need NO “safe regulatory environment”
again,
Let them do their shit! #0FOXGIVEN
just let ‘em;
it is the only way for #Freedom tech to flourish.
You didn’t answer any of my questions. So you don’t know what to answer besides your emotional arrogance. Read again and internalize.
You may be one of the developers who will be a victim of over-regulation.
Why not speak out against it now when so little effort is required on your part? Why don't you try to protect yourself and your colleagues, the community, while you enjoy all these privileges?
what are the questions!?
from my POV, resistance via governmental channels is futile.
we are BUILDing the future, we don’t care.
we focus on the light, not the darkness.
LET ‘EM!
the sooner such dystopian regulations are out the sooner those who are not the usual sheeple can source the #freedomtech solutions.
I will be repeating myself, but will try to be more straightforward. Since you have asked, Im replying.
Answer some simple questions: where are you from and where you work from, where is your money coming from? Who first will get access to your open source freedom tech and will be ready to support it for scaling?
Don’t need to answer me, answer to yourself.
You are writing your arrogant response to me probably holding western passport/residence or being born in the western world, working in western countries. Right?
You use western language learned by very privileged groups of people in the world.
By default you have more opportunities to defend your rights than others. Do you know about it?
Are you open source developer? Don’t you want your projects be financially successful and scalable? If you are open source developer you will need financial resources and non of the authoritarian regimes will provide you or give contract to develop freedom tech.
You will need to apply for funding in the western countries, organizations like @OpenSats or VCs. Do you aware that such organizations /companies impossible to establish in the authoritarian states without control of corrupt officials ? Do you know, that western world provides sort of guarantee for their rights and rights of their donors/investors to be profitable and their profits don’t taken.
Do you aware that good regulatory environment makes people willing more give/donate, risk, invent and explore. So you are direct beneficiary of the this friendly western countries environment, established long time ago. The problem is that people become lazy in defense of their rights and privileges, while others are ready to limit rights of majority since they don’t see much resistance.
Im surprised that I have to explain all of this. With all said above: try to go to Mali and develop, fundraise living there, but not in western world. Im curious to learn about your experience and results.
nostr:npub13ajk3hhvqys2ev4y68jwxywgs8fsdsuk4y5gkzs874jdyrccvf5qak2yd9, you seem to have a rather limited understanding of the true power of #freedom #technology. As a self-sovereign anarchocapitalist living in one of the countries of the Western world, which is counting years till its empire falls, I can assure you that it is not through the shackles of #regulation that real #change comes about.
No, it is through the unconstrained #innovation and entrepreneurial spirit of the free market that we shall forge a new path forward.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”. — Buckminster Fuller
You speak of the "Western World" and its supposed advantages, but let me tell you, true #liberty knows no borders.
Whether I am in Mali or Monaco, the principles of individual sovereignty and decentralised #freedomtechno will always shine through.
The very notion that one must rely on the benevolence of western institutions to achieve success is a fallacy propagated by those who cling to the status quo.
The future belongs to those who dare to dream beyond the confines of the state. With the power of #blockchain, #cryptography, and #p2p networks, we can build a world where no regulator, no bureaucrat, and no central authority can stand in our way.
It is through #freedomtechnology that the true spirit of the libertarian revolution will be realised, and the shackles of oppression will be cast aside.
Stupid politicians and naive policy makers can do as they wish. We simply don’t care! Let ‘em!
The very notion of “funding” is changing rapidly. You describe a world which is long gone. The future is #permissionless. The future is here, it is not enough decentralised as off yet.
So, I say to you, do not be beholden to the false promises of the old establishment. Embrace the boundless potential of the decentralised future, and join us in the fight for true economic and personal #liberty.
For it is only through the unshackled #power of the individual that we shall forge a new path, one that leaves the stifling grip of regulation far behind.
Arrogant? Nonsense. I'm merely operating at a higher level of intellectual sophistication and abstraction that you are most probably finding difficult to follow and comprehend.
True #progress is not achieved by opposing or battling against the status quo!
So what stops wasabi wallet to operate? What forced phoenix wallet limit their service in the US?
I have no doubt that freedom tech will win but for one simple reason - because at least in the US bitcoiners are DEFENDING their rights, not just living in the world of adoration and dreams. I wish in the EU to gather such community.
As for you - enjoy your comfort zone, while you can. A lot of people paid for it with their lives long time ago.
nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt can you provide some insight?
the future is here, it is NOT enough decentralised yet! (you don’t seem to get this, do you?)
if wasabi or phoenix were truly decentralised services, it would have been a non issue for both.
this is the learning-curve phase. it is through continuous experimentation and improvement that the new systemic tools of freedom will be surfacing.
Politicians, lawmakers and policy makers can keep doing their great job:
- bringing the western empire to its knees! (they can scan anything they like, from covidiots’ QR to the messages of the centralized apps etc)
#EU can scan deez nuts! 🥜
Trust the process.
We are not there yet, still early;
gradually and then suddenly…
BTW, #Eurozone is a failed experiment.