#chatcontrol

The European Union is going against online privacy by trying to pass a bill in october where AI will monitor all your texts before sending them! Even encrypted ones! If you don’t have the time to read it fully at least read the basic explanation and the what to do part. Our privacy depends on it!

For those in the US who don't know, that's basically the equivalent of our bad internet bills like KOSA, FOSTA/SESTA, ect, which would basically make member states of the EU scan all of your goddamn messages online and force everyone into intrusive, leak-prone age verification programs.

If you're in the European Union, contact your MPs/MEPs as soon as possible, any way you can, and tell them to veto this. And if you're not, boost this so folks in there can.

They told you it was about protecting children.

They told you it was about safety.

But what the European Union is voting on right now is not safety—it’s the legal death of privacy.

Here’s what “Chat Control” means:

Every message you send. Every photo. Every video. Every file. All scanned automatically before it even reaches the recipient. Without your consent. Without suspicion. By law.

That is not child protection. That is mass surveillance imposed on 450 million citizens. It destroys encryption. It destroys privacy. It destroys the very principle of free communication.

And it won’t stop in Europe. This is a virus.

The UK has its Online Safety Act. The US has the “Kids Online Safety Act” and the shiny new SCREEN Act. Different names, same poison: backdoors into your private messages, permanent surveillance disguised as morality.

Don’t be fooled. Once the infrastructure is in place, it won’t just scan for child abuse material. It will expand to “hate speech.” Then “misinformation.” Then “extremism.” Then whatever the state deems unacceptable. A permanent surveillance internet, where anonymity is illegal, where everything is tracked, monetised, and weaponised.

WhatsApp has already said it would rather leave Europe than comply.

Think about that. One of the world’s largest messaging platforms is saying this law is incompatible with free communication. If Big Tech doesn’t fight, the people will be left defenseless.

And don’t count on VPNs to save you. Already in the UK, YouTube is blocking VPN access for millions. Governments know VPNs are the last line of defense, so they’ll ban them too. Piece by piece, the walls close in.

This is not about keeping kids safe. If it were, governments would fund real investigations, real prosecutions, real protection. Instead, they’ve chosen the easier path: treating everyone like a suspect.

This is control. Always has been. Always will be. And unless people resist, unless citizens push back, we will lose the last shreds of privacy forever.

the current discussion going on at the EU is a war against its citizens and i'm just not normal about it — every dystopian futuristic movie we've ever watched, every game we've ever played where society has collapsed under the weight of its own technological evolution — it started right here in this moment. our human rights are being threatened. and as someone with unmediated ocd, i think i'm one step away from going into psychosis and running off into the woods.

i cannot be on an internet where i feel like every single fucking thing i type is being watched under a microscope, my mental illnesses can't just shrug this off and go well the fbi man when its so goddamn real. and don't get me started how this will affect friendships and connections that i've developed from writing. i don't want to give this up, i have nothing else that makes me feel as good as this. i like writing, i like sharing stories and being creative as a collective, but i dont see how i can do it any other way.

i'm anti censorship, i don't care what you write, what you fictionalise, i don't care. they come for the sex workers, they come for literacy, then they say they're protecting the children. on one hand, it's a rebellion to continue, on the other... shit, what the fuck is going on. it's scary times, yall.