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[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can someone explain to an American what chat control is?

[–] Vaginal_blood_fart@feddit.uk 71 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Basically scanning communications and breaking encryption, under the guise of predictably stopping child abuse

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

and technically, how would they achieve this?

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 58 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Force all the big platforms to share their encrypted data. Banning end-to-end encryption. It's all very stupid and will never actually catch any bad guys.

[–] Mrb2@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have been running my own matrix server andere cliënt for a while. So if I keep running it and just don't update it, that would suddenly be illegal? Geus it is time to see how my for relay is doing.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

No any self hosted isn't on the radar. By big, they mean the centralized giants, i.e. Meta, Google, Telegram, Signal(?) etc.

[–] hydration9806@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 months ago

Originally governments wanted backdoors into encryption protocols, but now they seem to want client side scanning (i.e. scanning messages on your phone before it's encrypted and sent out)

[–] Vaginal_blood_fart@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

[Already implemented by google, facebook, and microsoft]

Working like shit then? Has it made a difference?

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

If I understand correctly, its what the NSA "allegedly" doesn't do to U.S. citizens already. Except, these countries are being public about it. This way they can actually follow through without the "secret getting out".