The EU is killing its biggest and most profitable companies left and right, with bail-outs on horizon for the biggest employers.
At the same time no EU country govt can imagine functioning on a smaller tax revenue. They all plan to only grow their balance sheets.
Where will the money come from?
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/
It had become a tradition, they will try to push it through every (half) year until they manage to find a weak moment and succeed. This is a fight where we have bare hands and they have a poisoned blade. They only need one succesful strike and we have to be succesful in defence every single time unless we develop a resistance to the poison. It's good the resistance is being build.
Super bizare if you know what these people really did.
New nostriches, please note that nostr is not just a twitter clone. It can do much much more. For example you can use it to create and host websites! nostr:note1xpufgtcnlmc94yx3prln7ug0x2xfwlg5slw6tmfwdfn3eaveleeql87cju
A jeste by se dalo cekat, ze zacnou vznikat blby hry co budou mit za cil jenom cerpat dotace. Lose-lose.
To je zas natazenejch rukou. "Narovnani pokriveni trhu", notovizejo.
"Neni kde setrit, musime zvedat dane."
Not only are carmakers forced to produce something people don't care for and practically stopped buying. Carmakers are obligated to sell a certain portion of EVs to "lower the emissions", otherwise they face absolutely humongous fines (in bilions of euros). It's a strategy that only EU could have think is a good idea.
How surprising. "Non-profits" paid by taxpayers are asking for higher taxes.
And of course higher taxes will help with congestion. 🤡
Jak by rek Jeff Booth, na nekonecny inflaci zalozenej system nesnese setkani s deflaci prichazejici z technologie. Jediny co mu zbejva je pritlacit na inflaci nebo sabotovat exponencialni rust efektivity v techu.
Jo urcite to bude mit kazda prace jinak. Urcite jsou momenty, kdy je to nejefektivnejsi. U me typicky u nejakejch slozitejsich dokoncovacek a doladovacek. Ale to je vyjimka.
Typicky zadani prace a dohoda o ni je otazka 2 kratsich mailu a tem se ani neda vyhnout i kdyz bysme si telefonovali. Dobry je taky, ze veskera konverzace je dohledatelna. Nemusim pak volat po chvili nazpatek ze sem neco zapomel.
Je to ale solo prace. Kdyz delam v tymu na dalku, tak tam je ta dynamika obcas komplexnejsi a na neco je (hromadny) volani nebo fyzicka schuzka nejlepsi, to jo.
Muj telefon je vypnutej 95% casu. Vsechno co kdy po me kdo muze chtit muze napsat do mailu nebo pres signal atd. Obcas se hovor hodi, ale to hlavne kdyz se treba nejak fyzicky koordinujeme u nejakyho setkani za pochodu.
Kdyz jsem mival telefon zapnutej, tak mi z nejproduktivnejsi casti dne dokazalo sezrat vsechen cas a energii x hodinovejch telefonatu, kdy si lidi proste chtej povidat a povidat a povidat.
Mezitim v Metagulagu.
A new wave of conservative and "far-right" accounts blocks in the french Meta-gulag. Imagine (still) using facebook.
We got a lite version of the soviet ones, political prisoners were dying in uranium mines (for example). Just imagine a nasty set of lefties from twitter deciding your fate in deadly conditions of a mine not designed "in safety in mind" and where your live had negative value.
This is thankfully just a distant past in this part of the world, but I'm sure it's still happening in some countries.
"A russian work camp" is not an unusual setting for hollywood or netflix etc. Of course it's often a very superficial version of such thing. But it exists and it's probably used more than nazi cc. Probably. That said nazis got the more "glamorous" spot - being the feature. Gulags are more of a "generic cold miserable place" playground.
Where I'm from (post communist europe), the gulags were/are as terrifying (if not more) as the concentration camps in the "collective mind".
Drzim palce.
Instinktivne bych se takovy akcie chtel pri nejblizsi prilezitosti zbavit, ale tim bych nahraval "strategii statu". Bohuzel ani to ze se cena tech akcii nehne neni pro stat zadny vytrestani. To by byl asi soud. Ale to je taky jenom o tom, ze danovej poplatnik plati a statu je to sumak. Cisty zlo.
Crazy how these tomato plants grow out of just a small pots and still thrive like this. 👍
Jako sekundarni efekt jim to urcite vyhovuje. Ale hlavne chtej vytahnout penize z cezu a zaroven je nedavat skrz dividendu minoritarum.
