@EU_Commission

Yesterday the Dutch investigative journalism program "Zembla" went into the Twitter/X violent hate that politicians and journalists (who stubbornly still use it) receive.

Well-known fact that the (now open) algorithms are designed to amplify hate for monetary reasons.

Zembla tried to contact X. Guess what: they have an email auto-responder returning a huge 💩 emoji. They cannot be reached by phone. And they have a 'virtual office' in the Netherlands. A post box, that is 🤯

You own a social media network (mastodon.ar.al) that operates in the EU and will therefore become subject to #ChatControl (like Apple, making its withdrawal from scanning devices obsolete). Will you close your network once ChatControl becomes law?

https://chaos.social/@andre_meister/110988615769071342

Andre Meister

2023-09-01 07:04:36

Endspurt zur Chatkontrolle: In den nächsten Wochen entscheiden Politiker in Brüssel und den EU-Staaten über die Zukunft privater Kommunikation im Internet. Der Rat will seine Position noch im September beschließen, das Parlament im Oktober. https://netzpolitik.org/2023/internes-protokoll-eu-staaten-starten-endspurt-zur-chatkontrolle/

Internes Protokoll: EU-Staaten starten Endspurt zur Chatkontrolle – netzpolitik.org

Die EU-Staaten beharren darauf, massenhaft Kommunikation von Unverdächtigen zu überwachen. Ihre eigenen Juristen bezeichnen die Chatkontrolle als illegal. Wir veröffentlichen ein eingestuftes Verhandlungsprotokoll.

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@Life_is - That’s not my own social network, that’s my own Mastodon instance of one. It’s non-commercial and thus out of scope even under the current Chat Control draft legislation.

- Chat Control is not a done deal. Folks are fighting it.

- We are building the Small Web and Small Web places should also be out of scope even if Chat Control passes and even if they’re somehow deemed not out of scope, we would not be adding any feature that compromises people’s human rights.

@mark Your inability to click links and comprehend the contents of the articles they point to doesn’t mean I’m insane.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest investor in Twitter/X after Elon Musk. They own a huge chunk of Twitter/X. They’re sentencing a person to death based on what they wrote on the platform they own.

If you still can’t understand that, please kindly fuck off instead of slinging ad hominem attacks at me.

@mark All that is true, but there's no evidence that they did anything other look at his (public?) posts. The could (and do) that on any social network that they can read.

While I don't like the leaders or the fact that they put so much money in the platform (and the platform can die for all I care), I doubt they needed to do much digging to find out the details of the user, or am I wrong?