A bit less than 25 years ago, I was IT director at a small tech company. The MD approached me and asked about how we stop people looking at pr0n on the company's internet.<p>I looked into it, and worked out how much we'd need to restrict and monitor everyone's internet activity. And then realised that this wasn't a tech problem at all. If someone is looking at pr0n instead of doing their job, then that's a line management problem. Exactly the same as if they were reading a copy of Playboy at their desk.<p>Preventing child abuse is, similarly, not a tech problem. It's a human problem. The internet did not cause this problem, and if we monitor every single byte sent over a wire, the problem will still remain.
[offtopic]<p>"<i>You do not have access to stopchatcontrol.eu. The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site.</i>"
"<i>Performance & security by Cloudflare</i>"<p>Sigh... perhaps we should start "stopCloudflareAccessControl.eu".<p>[/offtopic]
In French the autogenerated text is a (bad) joke.
As an argument as to why the chat control law should not pass it’s saying chats are pets and are a part of the family! Because yes, chat means cat in French…<p>I stopped reading after that and increased my already great distaste for LLM and co.<p>It’s sad because we actually must stop chat control. It’s a terrible idea. (Like most EU regulations nowadays.)
Casual reminder there are talks to extend the reach of the chat control, now plenty of reactionary politicians wish it could also target regular criminal offenses, like drug dealing, or drag shows.
As software makers we can also apply pressure to governments through the software we make. Local government too often simply sighs off on what Brussels proposes. They don’t seem to realise that bad laws need to be rejected.<p>Software makers can choose to make licenses that disallow government use from governments that vote in these bas laws.
The EU is a total clusterfuck when it comes to tech regulation. Maybe the only good thing out of the EU is GDPR, everything else has been a massive overreach doing more harm than good.
This is a joke, right?<p>Edit:
I am aware about EU DMA that has working on mls and interoperability but nothing about csam and breaking encryption or sharing with third parties....<p>How will both exist together?<p>Is chat control part of new legislation supposed to undermine DMa?
It seems like most of these problems can be alleviated by two actions:<p>1) don't have servers in Europe<p>2) don't hire Europeans<p>If Europe wants to regulate themselves into the stone age, they should be free to do it.