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🇪🇺#ChatControl 👁️ threatens secure messengers: Signal 💬 & WhatsApp could be shut down in the EU 🇪🇺 & you'll lose all your contacts! 🛑
🔗 https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/digitales/signal-app-rueckzug-europa-100.html (Article in German)
Say NO to #ChatControl and call now to protest: ✊
👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu
While #chatcontrol poses an existential threat to the Freiburg merlinux GmbH and distributing #deltachat apps from within the EU to all stores worldwide, it would resist any chatcontrol legislation up to the German constitutional and EuGH courts.
If the EU based company would need to fold in a few years, there would likely be forks distributed outside the EU that will *seamlessly* continue to function. Our architecture and FOSS licensing makes sure of it. See also https://chaos.social/@delta/113417740762852318
I joined the #fediverse back in the days (2018, with my own instance) because I wanted an alternative. A real alternative. With a fundamentally different approach. Decentralised. Even when it hurts. (federation and decentralisation is complicated!) And I think we are on the right track. What bothers me are the people that want the Fediverse to be 1:1 copycat of centralised services and as that isn't the case declare it to be a failed experiment. I'll stay here. It's better. Is all.
I'd much prefer to discuss how we can make decentralisation better instead of discussing how we can attract TikTok, Facebook, Twitter users. The #Fediverse, due to decentralisation, can raise the price of abuse. Centralised services make abuse cheap. I want to drive up the costs of surveillance and abuse. Simple. Because when abuse becomes expensive, authorities have to justify the costs of limiting our freedom. See #ChatControl
De AIVD gaf vorig jaar aan dat dit EU-voorstel voor #ChatControl gevaarlijk is voor de digitale veiligheid. Dat inzicht is niet veranderd. Het scannen past ook niet hij onze fundamentele rechten en diverse wetgeving zoals Cbw (en AVG). Onze algehele security online staat op het spel en het EU-voorstel levert niets van waarde op.
Het is een compleet onverantwoorde motie en iedereen in de Tweede Kamer zou moeten tegenstemmen.
@pvdd @PvdA @Piratenpartij Sla op de trom!
https://www.security.nl/posting/907055/ChristenUnie+wil+Nederland+via+motie+voor+invoering+chatcontrole+laten+stemmen
🇫🇷Le #ChatControl 👁️ menace les messageries sécurisées. Signal 💬 & WhatsApp pourraient être fermés dans l'UE 🇪🇺 & tu perdras tous tes contacts ! 🛑
🔗 https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/digitales/signal-app-rueckzug-europa-100.html (en allemand)
Dis NON au #ChatControl et proteste maintenant : ✊
👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu
De AIVD gaf vorig jaar aan dat dit EU-voorstel voor #ChatControl gevaarlijk is voor de digitale veiligheid. Dat inzicht is niet veranderd. Het scannen past ook niet hij onze fundamentele rechten en diverse wetgeving zoals Cbw (en AVG). Onze algehele security online staat op het spel en het EU-voorstel levert niets van waarde op.
Het is een compleet onverantwoorde motie en iedereen in de Tweede Kamer zou moeten tegenstemmen.
@pvdd @PvdA @Piratenpartij Sla op de trom!
https://www.security.nl/posting/907055/ChristenUnie+wil+Nederland+via+motie+voor+invoering+chatcontrole+laten+stemmen
🇫🇷Le #ChatControl 👁️ menace les messageries sécurisées. Signal 💬 & WhatsApp pourraient être fermés dans l'UE 🇪🇺 & tu perdras tous tes contacts ! 🛑
🔗 https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/digitales/signal-app-rueckzug-europa-100.html (en allemand)
Dis NON au #ChatControl et proteste maintenant : ✊
👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu
🇮🇹Il #ChatControl 👁️ minaccia le app di messaggistica sicura. Signal 💬 & WhatsApp potrebbero essere chiusi nell'UE 🇪🇺 e perderai tutti i tuoi contatti! 🛑
🔗 https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/digitales/signal-app-rueckzug-europa-100.html (tedesco)
Dì NO al #ControlloChat e protesta ora: ✊
👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu
🇫🇷Le #ChatControl 👁️ menace les messageries sécurisées. Signal 💬 & WhatsApp pourraient être fermés dans l'UE 🇪🇺 & tu perdras tous tes contacts ! 🛑
🔗 https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/digitales/signal-app-rueckzug-europa-100.html (en allemand)
Dis NON au #ChatControl et proteste maintenant : ✊
👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu
🇪🇺#ChatControl 👁️ threatens secure messengers: Signal 💬 & WhatsApp could be shut down in the EU 🇪🇺 & you'll lose all your contacts! 🛑
🔗 https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/digitales/signal-app-rueckzug-europa-100.html (Article in German)
Say NO to #ChatControl and call now to protest: ✊
👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu
@delta
aaand yet another battlefield for public liberty, this time against the "Dont be Evil" turned "pure Evil" corporation itself :
What is merlinux GmbH statement about the Google's Developer Registration Decree ?
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https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
@matiu_bidule Googles planned restrictions on users abilities to install software is horrible. But it doesn't have much to do with the #deltachat app distribution, as the gmbh is already registered across many stores. We would like to see non-android/non-apple mobile efforts to florish. But let's not mix it too much with the issue of #chatcontrol even if it's true that enforcing chatcontrol would likely imply enforcing app distribution via google/apple eventually, and canceling e2ee apps.
While #chatcontrol poses an existential threat to the Freiburg merlinux GmbH and distributing #deltachat apps from within the EU to all stores worldwide, it would resist any chatcontrol legislation up to the German constitutional and EuGH courts.
If the EU based company would need to fold in a few years, there would likely be forks distributed outside the EU that will *seamlessly* continue to function. Our architecture and FOSS licensing makes sure of it. See also https://chaos.social/@delta/113417740762852318
@IreneMoews @Reinald @fasnix @energisch_ @kami_kadse @dadamsda #chatcontrol is a complex topic and challenge. We appreciate the attitude and public stance of @Mer__edith and believe all kinds of messenger/not-messenger projects, the privacy community at large, and civil society are in a joint fight on preserving privacy and end-to-end encryption against all kinds of authoritarian speech-dictators.
For more info on our stances:
https://chaos.social/@delta/115218560913545708
and
In search of positives I decided that all the proposed censorship and monitoring coming to the internet will benefit me personally. When UK bans me from logging in and using social media, when EU bans me from using chats, I'll have much more time for myself and my family. I'll learn all the things I always wanted to learn, visit places i wanted to visit, read ALL the books and play with cats. #OSA #UK #EU #ChatControl #privacy #censorhip
"Je n’ai jamais entendu parler d’une porte dérobée qui ne laisserait entrer que des gentils: il s’agit bien d’une possibilité offerte à tous les méchants de s’engouffrer!"
Andy Yen, le PDG de Proton, contre le projet de règlement #ChatControl https://www.nouvelobs.com/economie/20250930.OBS108199/j-adorerai-investir-un-milliard-en-france-mais-un-patron-de-la-tech-contre-le-reglement-chat-control.html (abonnés) «J’adorerais investir un milliard en France, mais…» Un patron de la tech contre le règlement «Chat Control»
"Je n’ai jamais entendu parler d’une porte dérobée qui ne laisserait entrer que des gentils: il s’agit bien d’une possibilité offerte à tous les méchants de s’engouffrer!"
Andy Yen, le PDG de Proton, contre le projet de règlement #ChatControl https://www.nouvelobs.com/economie/20250930.OBS108199/j-adorerai-investir-un-milliard-en-france-mais-un-patron-de-la-tech-contre-le-reglement-chat-control.html (abonnés) «J’adorerais investir un milliard en France, mais…» Un patron de la tech contre le règlement «Chat Control»
🚨 Denmark keeps pushing for Chat Control - but we keep pushing back!
Join us in our fight for #privacy ✊
Check why #Germany is the deciding factor 🇩🇪 and learn how to stop #Chatcontrol (including email addresses of German politicians): 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism
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