Because it's dangerous for the whole European Union, but it can be especially dangerous for minorities in the EU.

The EU wants to scan all of our messages (including these that are supposed to be E2E). Almost all countries support CC 2.0, 3 are against CC 2.0 but for CC 1.0 (which allows scanning DMs on Instagram, Discord, Xbox, emails on Gmail etc.) and only Italy is against all CC.

I'm scared for queers, disabled folks and racial & ethnic minorities in the EU. If the EU passes CC, governments will have easy access to all our messages. And governments will have an easier way to find out which accounts are owned by folks who are queer, disabled, POC or a part of ethnic minority. :(

more on CC: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

I'm sorry if I'm cluttering the inbox but I'm scared and sad because I don't really see people talking about it.

Hey, no need to be sorry, I had no other asks and I always welcome people to use the inbox if they need.

I had no idea this was a thing, that's incredibly upsetting. We know that letting governments do automated scans is sure to target innocent content and that this doesnt help children be safe. Removing privacy for everyone and making way for mass surveillance is not gonna help anyone, that's fucking dangerous. I cant even imagine the impact this will have on minorities already targeted with "dangerous predators" rethoric, even aside from the fact that this allows for surveillance of all texts. My immediate reaction is also that queer kids and trans kids will be less able to get help when they're targeted and that any kid who is being abused wont be able to talk about it. Public platforms cant even ensure the safety of users on public posts which are already monitored.

Im surprised Italy is the only one against, both because there should be more pushback and also because I didnt think *italy* out of everyone would've been the one to say no.

Because it's dangerous for the whole European Union, but it can be especially dangerous for minorities in the EU.

The EU wants to scan all of our messages (including these that are supposed to be E2E). Almost all countries support CC 2.0, 3 are against CC 2.0 but for CC 1.0 (which allows scanning DMs on Instagram, Discord, Xbox, emails on Gmail etc.) and only Italy is against all CC.

I'm scared for queers, disabled folks and racial & ethnic minorities in the EU. If the EU passes CC, governments will have easy access to all our messages. And governments will have an easier way to find out which accounts are owned by folks who are queer, disabled, POC or a part of ethnic minority. :(

more on CC: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

I'm sorry if I'm cluttering the inbox but I'm scared and sad because I don't really see people talking about it.

Hey, no need to be sorry, I had no other asks and I always welcome people to use the inbox if they need.

I had no idea this was a thing, that's incredibly upsetting. We know that letting governments do automated scans is sure to target innocent content and that this doesnt help children be safe. Removing privacy for everyone and making way for mass surveillance is not gonna help anyone, that's fucking dangerous. I cant even imagine the impact this will have on minorities already targeted with "dangerous predators" rethoric, even aside from the fact that this allows for surveillance of all texts. My immediate reaction is also that queer kids and trans kids will be less able to get help when they're targeted and that any kid who is being abused wont be able to talk about it. Public platforms cant even ensure the safety of users on public posts which are already monitored.

Im surprised Italy is the only one against, both because there should be more pushback and also because I didnt think *italy* out of everyone would've been the one to say no.

You don't need to despise your current gender for you to want to be a different gender. You can just be a guy if you want to be a guy. You can just be agender. You can just be a girlthing, or a maverique person, or an aboy, or anything you wish.

https://c.org/9rbYBnv67h

And that led me to look at the original study [link], and holy shit, the immediate exorsexism.

So, basically...they categorized all non-binary people into "trans men" and "trans women" categories. And they are malgendering cis enben [link] by forcing them to identify themselves as trans.

Because the NCVS doesn't recognize non-binary people.

What the fuck.

Think about this every time you see statistics about trans & gender diverse people. How many of them are being misgendered because they don't have the options to input their own identities? How many of them have to misgender themselves to have their voices heard?