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CHAT CONTROL IS BACK → Today the urgent procedure for Chat Control 1.0 was passed.

NEXT UP: The EU Parliament is voting on Thursday.

If Chat Control passes: your messages, pictures, videos will all be scanned because the law will allow it - this removes privacy and welcomes mass surveillance in the EU.

Share this post, make some noise, and let's fight for our right to privacy. ✊🏻♥️🇪🇺

Pictured: Parliament President Roberta Metsola (EPP) who revived Chat Control 1.0!

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Synnef 🤍💙💛

chat control 1.0 does not *require* scanning, it's the exact same bill that expired in April that only *allowed* it... but to be blunt, if it's allowed every big tech, data hungry company will take the opportunity again :neocat_flop:

i don't use twitter and can't see replies but i hope that post is getting annihilated with backlash :neocat_melt: like every single supporter of chat control they try to frame it in a nice way like in this case "discussing europe's efforts to protect children" :neocat_laugh:

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Synnef 🤍💙💛

@skaphle @budududuroiu it *is* abuse of the parliamentary process!

this is what is currently happening: patrick-breyer.de/en/procedura… tl;dr the EPP, the EU council and the parliament president (which is from EPP) pushed a vote for urgent procedure into the parliament (which succeeded on Tuesday, yesterday) to allow revoting on the expired chat control 1.0 regulation (which happens on Thursday, tomorrow) to reenable it

i also find it funny that one of the MEPs who was vocal about this manouver was cut off from his criticism *exactly* 1 minute after he was given his turn, which is allowed in theory but honestly sounds more like censorship in this case. this is what the MEP posted on twitter nitter.catsarch.com/MartinSonn…

Procedural Trick Before Summer Recess Pushes EU Parliament Towards Capitulation on "Chat Control"

On Tuesday, the European Parliament will vote on a request for urgent procedure aimed at reviving the previously rejected, indiscriminate mass surveillance of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0").
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Doerk

@synnef Unfortunately this doesn’t make anything better. As for now it’s just about voluntarily scanning your messages. But the voluntariness comes from the providers like Meta, Google etc. not from the users.

I’m wondering what would happen if som day not so far in the future we read the message that the EU parliament has decided to enforce chat control for all communications? What would we do? What would we be able to do?

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Synnef 🤍💙💛

@NebulaTide correct, it's not like the likes of meta/google *won't* take the chance to legally break encryption even when it's only allowed, not enforced :neocat_laugh_sweat:

if this ever goes further into dystopia i think the future is self hosting, federation and decentralization. for example, matrix using E2EE is immune to chat control by design because you can host your own server, the same way mastodon is immune to age verification since you can just host it yourself :neocat_mug: it'd take a lot more effort from authoritarian regimes to censor those, and FLOSS in general, out of existence

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Doerk

@synnef Unfortunately this is not what most of the people will do. Today ~90 % of my contacts have at least Signal installed so I can contact them even though most of them actively use WhatsApp. When Signal is no longer an Option, they will just shrug and go on using WhatsApp.

And what comes next? Will encryption be prohibited? Will they try to establish CSS so that you can’t trust your own devices anymore?

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Elena Rossini 🌈

this is terrible!

BTW may I suggest a better photo to illustrate this (maybe a future post?), from a recent meeting of Metsola with Mark Zuckerberg at Meta HQ: instagram.com/p/DY1GdzFMfHj

Roberta Metsola on Instagram: "Great to connect with @meta’s Mark Zuckerberg @zuck in Palo Alto to discuss the next frontiers in Artificial Intelligence development and the work MEPs are doing in the @europeanparliament to protect vulnerable users online,

2,450 likes, 167 comments - roberta.metsola on May 26, 2026: "Great to connect with @meta’s Mark Zuckerberg @zuck in Palo Alto to discuss the next frontiers in Artificial Intelligence development and the work MEPs are doing in the @europeanparliament…
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Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

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@Eelco Mulder 🇪🇺 @Bart Groothuis Ik ben Bart niet maar als burger van EU is did uiteraard niet goed, waar is onze recht op privacy, dit is een totale controle van de staat en niet van de kiezer.
Dit stond op geen een Europese politieke partij op de agenda.
En volgende verkiezingen gaan drastisch zijn door deze maatregelen en andere dingen
@Eelco Mulder 🇪🇺 @Bart Groothuis
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https://mastodon.social/users/SecoasecasMouse

La Europa que dice estar preocupadísima por los niños, es la misma que le parece estupendo el asesinato de más de 20.000 niños en Palestina, y persigue a quienes denuncian dicha matanza. Lo que demuestra la falsedad de que su preocupación es la infancia. Pretenden crear un estado de vigilancia masiva para después poder perseguir disidentes políticos, periodistas y defensores de las libertades democráticas y los derechos humanos. Asistimos al principio del fin de la democracia en Europa

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LukefromDC

None of your stuff will be scanned if you refuse to use compliant apps.

Signal will surely refuse to scan anything, delete any messengers that do attempt to introduce scanning. Dump Facebook, IG, all the rest of that.

If this law allows and incentivises but does not actually REQUIRE scanning, there will be plenty of "dodgy" sites and apps that refuse

Be sure to keep your local filesystem isolated from the Internet-with or without Chat Control in force.

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