One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill (www.politico.eu)
from BCBoy911@lemmy.ca to privacy@lemmy.ml on 08 Oct 21:41
https://lemmy.ca/post/53040904

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boogiebored@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 21:50 next collapse

is giving a massive headache to those trying to pass a European bill aimed at stopping child sexual abuse material from spreading online.

Hot garbage lies

Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Oct 22:38 next collapse

Politico’s framing leans pro‑legislation, subtly signaling support for the bill by foregrounding officials and advocates who stress enforcement while downplaying arguments about encryption and civil liberties. Its emphasis on the public’s “disruptive” tactics risks delegitimizing grassroots opposition by casting broad civic engagement as mere nuisance rather than substantive democratic protest.

pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Oct 23:51 collapse

Politico is owned by Germany’s largest right leaning yellow press publisher Axel Springer. They love to push Anti-Green, ultra conservative agendas

s38b35M5@lemmy.world on 09 Oct 00:24 next collapse

And Mathias Döpfner is himself an out of touch billionaire-class nut who applauds the tamping of freedoms (including of the press) and jumps at every chance to breathe life into lies that advance his oligarchic wet dreams. The kind of person who says horrible things, then lies about saying them, and when confronted with the receipts, pretends he was just being “edgy” or “provocative” to provoke the plebs.

News organizations that exist to accurately report the news and properly inform the public are the exception now, I’m afraid. The rest have an agenda, and it never involves the common good.

boogiebored@lemmy.world on 09 Oct 00:31 collapse

Common tactic for the elite media controlling class like Trump, Musk, etc.

linuxuser9000@lemmygrad.ml on 09 Oct 01:44 next collapse

Oh. It’s them. Eyeo for the w?

eldavi@lemmy.ml on 09 Oct 05:06 next collapse

i’ve always wondered who could be a euro version of roger ailes or rupert murdoch…

kablez@lemmy.ml on 09 Oct 05:14 next collapse

Axel Springer also gave an “award” to Sam Altman. Trump’s not the only “American king” demanding tributes!

redline@lemmygrad.ml on 09 Oct 08:24 collapse

wtf??? thanks for the info i was not at all aware that politico was an axel springer outlet

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Oct 18:17 next collapse

The same guys relentlessly defending the child mass murders in Gaza, here cosplay as being against child sexual abuse.

The irony is so massive that I’m surprised a black hole didn’t form at Politico’s main office in Germany.

I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world on 09 Oct 18:55 collapse

I see two lies.

First, obviously the bill is not about stopping CSAM.

The second, in no way is this a massive headache to anyone. You guys know email filters are a thing right?

QuazarOmega@lemy.lol on 08 Oct 22:07 next collapse

Unfathomably based

sexy_peach@feddit.org on 08 Oct 22:17 next collapse

modern day hero

they should open snail mail to check it for CSAM I don’t care

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Oct 23:01 next collapse

The campaign has irked some recipients. “In terms of dialog within a democracy, this is not a dialog,” said Lena Düpont, a German member of the European People’s Party group and its home affairs spokesperson, of the mass emails.

Then open your eyes and ears and pay attention. If you did, then people wouldnt be forced to send you these emails. Germany is still “undecided” on this issue and we could basically single-handedly decide the outcome. If Germany votes against then it wont pass.

SrMono@feddit.org on 09 Oct 08:12 collapse

For crying out loud… she is right. After she/they didn’t initiated the much needed dialog (for the xth. time), this was a protest note, sent by those they were talking about, but not listening to. Still a very democratic process.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 09 Oct 08:52 collapse

At no point did i say that this is a dialog. Im just say she shouldnt be mad at the people emailing, but at her government.

SrMono@feddit.org on 09 Oct 08:56 collapse

The quote says: “this is not a dialog”. I’m arguing against Düpont as they failed to initiate a dialog the several times they tried to pass the exact same regulation.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 09 Oct 09:12 collapse

Ah silly me. I just woke up… Thanks for making me read your comment again with my brain turned on.

padlock4995@lemmy.ml on 09 Oct 00:14 next collapse

Uk needs this for Britcard BS

chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Oct 08:12 next collapse

The site lets visitors compile a mass email warning about the bill and send it to national government officials, members of the European Parliament and others with ease

Why are they talking about this as if it’s a strange thing to happen and disruptive? I’ve seen lots of websites about a political issue that help people send emails to their representatives, isn’t that just a normal part of democracy?

Horse@lemmygrad.ml on 09 Oct 08:22 next collapse

the same reason they say the bill is (objective) to fight CSAM and privacy activists say (subjective) it will break encryption and lead to mass surveillance
the owners of politico want the bill to pass

Corridor8031@lemmy.ml on 09 Oct 14:32 collapse

now that you say it like that, i think it is really like that, they always portray the privacy and cybersecurty people as just having an opinion on this…

drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works on 09 Oct 08:50 next collapse

Normal part of democracy sighted GUNSHOTS

neutronst4r@beehaw.org on 09 Oct 13:37 next collapse

It is normal, and also irrelevant. Representatives don’t read their (public) E-Mails.

I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world on 09 Oct 18:54 collapse

Government officials: right clicks email and sets up a filter to automatically move them to a separate folder, or just delete them

silasmariner@programming.dev on 09 Oct 10:21 next collapse

A website set up by an unknown Dane

The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer living in Aalborg, Denmark.

Does anyone fucking proof-read anything any more? Or does unknown just mean ‘not famous’ these days? FML.

OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net on 09 Oct 18:31 next collapse

A Dane with under a million followers, so a nobody really.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 09 Oct 18:53 collapse

likely propaganda to influence how you think of him.

Corridor8031@lemmy.ml on 09 Oct 15:03 next collapse

the website is great really

And btw it seems like you can easily use it to “contact” all Eu represanatives for other matters aswell, it generates a list of the mail addresses of whoever (national or eu) you choose, optional everyone, and then you can copy it to your mail account and write them

It is not much but it feels good doing something, maybe one person might read it atleast

ziproot@lemmy.ml on 11 Oct 21:48 collapse

Waow