Comment by utopiah
13 hours ago
> I laughed at this, as an european. I mean just this year we've had like 3 scares with chat control,
Strange to compare "scares" with a business model that's 20 years old now. Sure the EU is far from perfect but it's like comparing a well known problem to a potential one. One is bad, the other might sucks. It's definitely not equivalent.
> It's definitely not equivalent.
We agree, but not for the reasons you think we do.
Chatcontrol is literally 1984. It's mandated at the provider level. You can't opt out.
You can always chose not to participate in the social media, sharing whatever you do. You can't not participate in chat control. Same same, but different.
FWIW I didn't say Chatcontrol was good. I'm saying there is a fundamental difference between a potential law versus an existing situation.
You can't opt out because there's nothing to opt out from, chat control is not law, it failed to be approved every single time people tried to bring it up, sometimes it even failed before being voted on (like this last time)
But you get that it's still hypothetical at this point, while it's been going on in the US for, what, 20 years now?