#chatcontrol fact check!
@EUCommission
Chat Control is NOT about protecting children at its core. On the very surface, yes. But the proposed approach is so far reaching that it will enable surveillance of the whole population at the next political intersection.
We all really want to fight child abuse. CSAM is an incredibly cruel crime against defendless individuals. Yes, we want those criminals to be sentenced harshly and hard in courts.
But Chat Control is not the right solution. Do you really want to call out several hundred millions of European citizens as potential perpetrators just to catch the abusers?
What happened to the presumption of innocence? Which is the foundation in the law system across all of Europe. What kind of regime are we preparing for in Europe if we don't enforce and protect the presumption of innocence?
Europe has had a strong stance of opposing supressing regimes. Regimes which builds their power through controlling the population. Control which comes through surveillance of the population.
When did Europeans vote for a regime change in Europe? We threw fascists out of the political influence over 80 years ago. We do not want to do the same again.
We threw out communists from European influence 40 years ago. Communists who was behind Stasi in the DDR - Do we need to repeat what the state controlled surveillance did to the population there?
You may rightfully claim that Chat Control is not meant to be that extreme. No, it isn't right now. But it has the power of ending there. Once the tools to surveil the population has arrived, it is hard to withdraw them. And the idea behind Chat Control is in practice surveillance of what Europeans do on their electronic devices. Regardless if they are a suspect or innocent.
Chat Control MUST be stopped, once and for all. And the work to protect children must be more clever, more targeted at clearly defined suspects. Not to surveil the whole European population.
And this message has not even dug into the rabbit hole of how flawed the chat control approach is on a technical level. Where the real offenders and abusers will find technologic ways to avoid chat control and this surveillance. Leaving the rest of the innocent population, the majority of the population under surveillance by default.
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
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