Note the concern is based on historical precedent, that the commission can browbeat the parliament into passing it, especially considering the recent changing of the guard and relatively limited information that many national voters get of their MEP's activities in the european parliament because of the tendency for EU elections to be decided on domestic issues.
Sure it’s now opt-in.
But if you don’t opt in, you can no longer send photos or videos.
before bittorrent such primal tools like uuencode, or mpeg2ascii were the way to move media thru a domain that filtered it.
That seems so arbitrary, where does ascii art fall?
ASCII art porn vs CSAM pictures and videos: what do you think has a higher chance to involve e.g. child abuse?
Preventing the spreading of CSAM is one of the key ideas behind the regulation.
I wonder what happens with pictures sent as base64 text blobs though.
Probably under the umbrella of "you're not going to transmit anything meaningful with an extremely limited amount of horizontal space due to the automatic formatting of chat bubbles"
you would shatter it and send the shards off in a stream of messages.
the recvng client would capture, and append to a file until complete.