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Chat Control: EU lawmakers finally agree on the voluntary scanning of your private chats (www.techradar.com)
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[โ€“] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you considered what might be the point of writing a law that's voluntary to follow?

[โ€“] nyankas@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes

[โ€“] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perhaps I should've clarified.

There's no such thing as a voluntary law. No one's getting away with murder by saying they didn't feel like following the law that day. The point is to enforce it through legal trickery while everyone involved throws their hands in the air and goes, "Hey man, the law might be a piece of shit, but it's voluntary! No one's forcing you to follow it!"

[โ€“] nyankas@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have to disagree with the statement that there is no voluntary law. For example, GDPR certifications (Art. 42) have been a thing for years, are encouraged by the EU, but have remained completely voluntary for organizations.

I totally agree with you that it's important to stay vigilant and keep an eye on the further development of this specific regulation, especially as it still has a long way to go before actually becoming law. But I think seeing the compromise as some sort of trickery is purely speculative right now and doesn't really do justice to the activists inside and outside EU organizations who have spent the last few years successfully preventing a mandatory chat control. A lot of the comments here seem very doom-and-gloomy, sometimes almost resigned, as if nothing has been accomplished by protesting these initial proposals. And I think, while there are definitely further battles ahead, it's also a good idea to celebrate and remind ourselves of the accomplishments we've made here.