If you try combat political issues mainly through technological solutions, you have already lost.
We've tried the political solutions for so long, but this thing just keeps coming back. We have to put our lives and day jobs on hold to push back against this, while the authoritarian camp's agenda is carried by people for whom advancing it is their day job. Therefore it costs them nothing to try over and over again, and they only need to succeed once.
I mean, we enjoy workers rights only after decades of violent protests and many deaths, and yet they are still constantly threatened, because its is a nature of power and politics.
But pro-privacy people consider writing a petition a peak of political struggle, and when it fails it is over for them.
This is what people say when they're afraid that technological solutions would actually work.
Technologies have a network effect. If the rest of the world is using a technology which is resistant to censorship or surveillance, any given country will have a harder time banning it, and those technologies defend against governments that violate privacy rights in secret even when the law prohibits them from doing it.
Build privacy into every internet standard and protocol. Make it seven layers deep with no single point of compromise. Make attempts to break it an exercise in futility because it's built so thick into so many things that stripping even a piece of it back out would break the whole world and still not compromise the security of the system.
There is no "Eureaucracy", Council decides, countries may or may not implement.
https://commission.europa.eu/law/application-eu-law/implemen...
I think that people are no mentioning enough that there is a specific country:
DENMARK
which is leading this effort. Not saying that there aren't plenty of EU bureaucrats who support Chat Control but this is not primarily some "top-down" EU thing. Its a specific subset of countries trying to impose their dystopian ideas on the entire EU.
If the EU parliament and court of justice are the main institutions that can stop this if countries like Germany etc. just rollover.
The cliché about how you should not approach political problems with technical solutions is recited all the time in these threads, but nobody ever presents evidence for this claim. It seems like a meme that is disproportionately useful for those who are confident in their abilities to win any political contest.
You can also go to jail for any of the above, should your particular government authority decide to throw the book at you.
Technical capability is necessary, but rarely sufficient.
It's instructive to read the I2P threat model, https://geti2p.net/en/docs/how/threat-model, as it details a number of potential attacks within reach of a large corporate or state-level adversary