GO SEND YOUR MAIL TODAY
dis here is rlli important. we cannot let such legislation pass.
secondary image link (blahaj zone)
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/425ef5f8-3654-4a71-9f95-adeba298d88c.webp
if you live in the EU and care about your messages staying private, between you and your frens, PLEASE send a mail (or multiple mails) to your countries representatives!
we only have 2 months left, but we can still make a change!!!
visit https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ TODAY to inform yourself and get their mail template!
WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE!
BUT WE MUST TAKE ACTION!
if you are german and want a starting point, you may modify and send my mail
Sehr geehrte Abgeordnete,
mein Name ist Maria njkflndkejaöfjmakl. Ich bin XX Jahre alt, wohne in blablfabsklf in fksjaöflknm,fncad., und starte bald mein XGFDJLÖ-Studium in fjdwskefnjadköfsd. Ich schreibe Ihnen, weil ich mir große Sorgen um unsere Privatsphäre mache - angesichts der erneut diskutierten Chat-Control-Gesetzgebung. Ähnliche Pläne wurden bereits mehrfach von der EU abgelehnt, doch nun ist das Thema wieder auf dem Tisch.
Besonders beunruhigt mich, dass Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung untergraben werden könnte und dass die Inhaltsanalyse - die ja CSAM finden soll - in der Praxis nicht zuverlässig funktioniert. Für mich fühlt sich das Ganze wie ein Schritt in die komplett falsche Richtung an.
In Deutschland haben wir das Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung und Versammlungsfreiheit. Wir dürfen uns treffen und über alles sprechen, was wir möchten - ohne Angst haben zu müssen, dass unsere Gespräche falsch interpretiert oder überwacht werden.
Wenn dieses Chat-Control-Gesetz durchkommt, wäre das, als würde bei jedem Treffen mit Freunden ein Polizist mit am Tisch sitzen, der jedes verdächtige Wort überwacht und bei Verdacht Alarm schlägt.
Und noch viel schlimmer: Wird ein solches System einmal eingeführt, öffnet es Tür und Tor für weitere Überwachungstechnologien.
Es ist leicht, einer Anti-CSAM-Gesetzgebung zuzustimmen: schließlich ist die Verbreitung solcher Inhalte ein schweres Verbrechen, welches wir alle ablehnen. Doch danach ist es sehr leicht, weitere, inakzeptable Inhalte zur automatischen Überwachung hinzuzufügen.
Zum Beispiel könnte in Zukunft auch nach bestimmten politischen Meinungen gescannt werden.
Das mag jetzt unrealistisch klingen - aber sobald das technische System existiert, wäre es erschreckend einfach umzusetzen.
Außerdem glaube ich, dass diese Maßnahme das eigentliche Ziel gar nicht erreicht.
Zwar könnten große Plattformen wie WhatsApp, Signal oder Telegram betroffen sein - aber Menschen, die CSAM verbreiten, würden natürlich sofort auf unregulierte, sichere Alternativen wechseln.
Zum Beispiel auf Matrix, das dezentral, offen und verschlüsselt ist - und genau dafür geschaffen wurde, freie Kommunikation zu schützen.
Ich würde genau gleich handeln, wenn meine digitale Aktivität auf einmal konstant kontrolliert wird.
Ich habe Angst vor flächendeckender, automatisierter Überwachung, wie sie aktuell in undemokratischen Systemen angewandt wird.
Der aktuelle Gesetzesvorschlag verfehlt also komplett das Ziel des Kinderschutzes - und greift stattdessen tief in unsere Freiheitsrechte ein.
Ich bitte Sie daher dringenst: Stimmen Sie gegen jeden Vorschlag, der eine solche Massenüberwachung privater Kommunikation ermöglicht.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Maria fdskngfjkalm jcöilfasx
this is not some far off thing. if we dont do something now, we WILL have to live with constant media-checks on most platforms (including end-to-end encrypted ones).
what is CSAM?
CSAM stands for child sexual abuse material
. since the “but think of the children” argument doesnt work as well anymore, politicians now use CSAM as an argument for complete chat-surveillance, including your texts, images and videos
Thank you for the PSA Smorty :3
can we not do that please? Her Name is Maria now.
some clients don’t support display names so i’m not surprised people don’t know :( voyager for example hasn’t got that functionality
Ah damn i didnt know that. It still showed me just the URL name on Thunder.
Edit: Just found that there is an option in Thunder that is turned off by default. Its under Settings > Appearance > Theming > Show User Display Names
But yeah as others have pointed out, this isnt optimal for impersonation reasons, but so far i havent had any issues with that on lemmy.
the platform is still too small for it to be a problem.
damn that sucks, those apps really should up their game.
the reasoning given by the voyager dev is that it’s trivial to impersonate people using display names. which… yeah, it is. if account migration was smoother it wouldn’t really be a problem, but considering the audience you’d really think deadnaming was a known issue.
then again people my age were told to never use names online that can be traced back to us, maybe they assumed that would hold.
Wow, Maria is not using her usual uwuspeak, this is important
i dun like thad word… “
uwu
”… yea no… i like - genuinely nevr sad thad stff—Cutespeak then?
makes sense; she is cute
Lena, can we not do that please? Her Name is Maria now.
Edited the comment, love the name btw
Oh, I apologize. Isn’t smorty just a username though, not her real name?
some clients don’t show display names. the web client shows them, but some mobile ones like voyager don’t.
Ah, thanks. I use voyager.
Well she did post a comprehensive explanation about why her Name’s Maria now but as you can’t change your handle (you would need to make a new one) she changed her display name to reflect it.
I support everyone being called whatever they want but I’m not on here super often so I didn’t see the post about the name change and this client doesn’t have display names. :(
Make people do what you say more often by assuming positive intent when it is possible.
I don’t understand what you are trying to say.
“Can we not do that please?” is usually read with a passive aggressive tone, especially when you prefix it with someone’s name. Instead, something like “Hey, Maria made a post about how she prefers people not refer to her as Smorty anymore. Here’s a link to it.” Doing it that way carries a positive intent that once informed, someone will do the right thing. I think that aligns with Maria’s whimsical and positive vibes as well.
Oh I see. I didn’t intend it to be passive aggressive just a friendly reminder which I failed hard then. Thanks for explaining:)
That’s okay! I figured it was a bit of an autism moment of using plain language but being misread. :)
I think I should get me diagnosed, just to get clarification.
Hell yeah! This is very important, as someone from the UK, I encourage everyone in the EU to speak out against this before you all end up like us.
Thanks for the PSA maria!
What stops us from using a mathematically secure open source messenger instead of whichever messenger had a software update to do with that law?
nothing yet.
but they do plan on somehow making it possible to encrype those messages… or catch them before they are encrypted…
i would like to not wait for them to try to-
they could enforce that all devices have OS-level spyware… 1984 stuff.
Chat is this real?
its sadly real ;(
politicians still seem to think we dun care bout privacy… which is sad.,.,.
That’s super important, because its never about protecting our children, but to install authoritarian control mechanism, that doesn’t help them or our police forces as they don’t need more tools but more personnel (and interconnections)!
I did my part (for 79 Abgeordnete)
GO SMOOORRYYYYYH 🗣️
can we not do that please? Her Name is Maria now.
Wait how was I supposed to know
AlsoGO MARIAAAAAAAAAA
Must be a glitch or an oversight of your client, as my default Web UI and also Eternity shows her name instead of her full handle.
I see
I’m using Voyager (iOS), and am pretty sure many Lemmings use it
No wonder so many people got the name wrong
Thank you Maria for this important message!
Feels like we need to push back against this sort of shit on the regular these days (and as a EU citizen currently living in the UK, I am getting a double whammy). It is so fucking tiring to repeatedly see such egregious and moronic decisions being made by an increasingly controlling and authoritarian ruling class.
In any case, thanks Maria for bringing attention to it. I don’t know whether this is only true for me or not, but I heard about chat control a lot more the first time it was being discussed a few years ago, and I only just learned about this instance now. Unsure why, and if it is actually being talked about less or if I was somehow under a rock, but your PSA is really appreciated regardless.
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amazing info image :3
Omg my country is based for once and opposes 😭
Unfortunally i dont live in eu, so i cant send mail to representatives, but at least they would not be able to scan my messages anyway.
5 Eyes has entered the chat
isn’t this the plot of animal farm? (particularly)
Mirror for those of us who can’t access catbox?
heres the image, this time via blahaj.zone <3
I’m not in the eu, but I wish my friends over there luck in fighting this bullshit.