Chat control is back on the agenda again and the works is kept in secret.
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2024
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What is chat control?
From what I can glean, it's another sort of mass surveillance, wherein the provider of a chat service would be required to monitor communications for "suspicious activity"
Basically, the government is once again asking for unrestricted access to your personal life "for your own good"
I always thought the "see something, say something" tag-line was creepy as fuck and don't understand why everyone doesn't get the same vibe. It's common sense that if you see someone being harmed or in a harmful situation you speak up. But this is just a blanket "see something" which feels like a dog whistle for all the nosy and paranoid people to spy on everyone and it's for the best. I guess we'll have the same personalities in search algorithms going forward -_-
Right there with you.
Sadly, too many people don't put in the mental effort to verify what they're told.
I suspect we're all susceptible to this to greater/lesser degrees, and subject-dependent. I just can't figure out my own blind spot around this.