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Chat control (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/privacy@programming.dev

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Pandora's iPhone, by Stuart Carlson, 2016. Still spot-on in 2026:

A backdoor for the good guys simply does not exist. Once you build it, hackers walk through, authoritarian governments walk through, and the rest follows.

The UK is pressuring for chat control right now. EU Chat Control initiatives keep popping up. We need to keep saying NO to this!

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[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 2 weeks ago

And it is not only this.
It also has the danger to invoke "chilling effects", so self-censorship in normally private environments.
Chat control and similar ideas are anti-democratic and suppressive at their very core.