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Take action to stop chat control now

patrick-breyer.de

It will happen, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but there's a movement to do it. No matter your vote, no matter your opinion.

The solution is to create asap an opensource sideload-ready app to maintain private conversations. When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

I’m so tired of this defeatist attitude. Every time there’s some bad law like this someone says “there’s no point, it will pass eventually”. Maybe it will, and if it does it will be in no small part because of you.

Please, either help or get out of the way. It’s your prerogative to give up on your rights, but stop trying to bring everybody down with you. That’s counterproductive even for yourself.

Delaying bad laws is worth it. It has happened again and again, and the more it happens and the more noise is made the more it gets watered down and occasionally even abandoned. Fighting them is worth it, giving up is worse than useless.

It seems like there should be an organ that catches there kinds of overreaching laws immediately when proposed. Monitoring the communications of private citizens is simply wrong for various reasons. There's no way shit like this should ever be able to proceed to the point of a vote, when it's in direct contradiction with various constitutions and human rights declarations.

If there's a force, which is clearly not that of an informed populace, that keeps banging on these kinds of doors and all that it takes is that some idiot opens it once, you can see how it's a natural response to stop relying on the gatekeepers to protect you in the first place. Revolt or civil disobedience becomes the natural defense mechanism.

Also, the comment you replied to is not "giving up on rights", the opposite. He's offering a solution to uphold those rights that doesn't involve bending the knee to those who want to trample on them (regardless of how idiots vote). I will (in)definitely keep communicating E2E encrypted, whatever the law happens to say.

Just vote harder?

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