Chat control is back on the agenda again and the works is kept in secret.

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What is chat control?

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From what I can glean, it’s another sort of mass surveillance, wherein the provider of a chat service would be required to monitor communications for “suspicious activity”

Basically, the government is once again asking for unrestricted access to your personal life “for your own good”

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I always thought the “see something, say something” tag-line was creepy as fuck and don’t understand why everyone doesn’t get the same vibe. It’s common sense that if you see someone being harmed or in a harmful situation you speak up. But this is just a blanket “see something” which feels like a dog whistle for all the nosy and paranoid people to spy on everyone and it’s for the best. I guess we’ll have the same personalities in search algorithms going forward -_-

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Right there with you.

Sadly, too many people don’t put in the mental effort to verify what they’re told.

I suspect we’re all susceptible to this to greater/lesser degrees, and subject-dependent. I just can’t figure out my own blind spot around this.

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I mean, it’s almost fun thinking of how they’d react to my porn selection.

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This flowchart explains it well: Source

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Oh sorry! Yeah it seems the flowchart wasn’t updated, there’s a section on the website beneath clarifying the recent changes proposed which includes this:

Scanning would be limited to visual content and URLs

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