- Keep your mainstream big platform accounts for discovery and casual conversations.
- Set up your own platforms to tinker on, share with small groups of friends. Focus on cattle vs kittens keeping servers ephemeral, mostly-stateless and data backed up to secure locations, logs in tmpfs or /dev/null.
So much for it being “dropped” I guess. It looks like they are going to force this through one way or another, and the only option is to resist by any means possible.
I am in the US, but I’ll do my best to build and promote tools and services that EU citizens can use to circumvent this.
Between the eurozone basically being a setup helping the richest countries get richer through an undervalued money at the expense of the poorest members, the euro being mandatory for new members despite being terrible for their economic development and serving only the interests of a select few countries, these rich members refusing any kind of integrated fiscal policies and pretending to be paragon of virtue despite their own economy being broken and unbalanced, them sacrificing Greece to save their own banks, the current commission being a bunch of yes people selected for loyalty and at the service of a corrupt and mediocre politician usurping diplomatic powers which the treaties don’t give her, a parliament largely consisting of failed politicians ignoring the opinion of their own citizen, legislation being mostly written and solely proposed by disconnected technocrats overpaid and paying far less taxes than the common men, eastern countries wanting nothing more than being lapdog of the US, everyone being prisoners because the treaties don’t provide a path for an orderly exit from the Eurozone, and Germany using their political capital to help themselves and themselves only at every time it’s convenient - see how regulation on car emissions will stop, debt funded investments will suddenly become desirable when it suits their economy, and how terrible international commercial agreements are suddenly good if they can export a few more cars - what is there exactly to like about the EU?
Sorry I’m extremely cynical about the whole thing and it might show. Such a joy being able to surrender our sovereignty to people we have nothing in common with, neither culture, nor language, nor vision for the future, let alone desire to live together.
What Now?
- Keep your mainstream big platform accounts for discovery and casual conversations.
- Set up your own platforms to tinker on, share with small groups of friends. Focus on cattle vs kittens keeping servers ephemeral, mostly-stateless and data backed up to secure locations, logs in tmpfs or /dev/null.
So much for it being “dropped” I guess. It looks like they are going to force this through one way or another, and the only option is to resist by any means possible.
I am in the US, but I’ll do my best to build and promote tools and services that EU citizens can use to circumvent this.
I couldn’t find the text of it (unsurprising if it’s being rushed through), but how does it “outlaw anonymous communication”?
That sounds even more terrifying than the original chat control! How is this the back door “compromise”?
It is here: https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2025/11/2025-11-06_Cou...
It is worse than the original.
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
This makes me feel pissed off. I used to be Pro EU, now I'm not so sure. (Suddenly I understand Trump voters.)
I’m mad too, but the solution is not to want to vote for someone even worse.
Between the eurozone basically being a setup helping the richest countries get richer through an undervalued money at the expense of the poorest members, the euro being mandatory for new members despite being terrible for their economic development and serving only the interests of a select few countries, these rich members refusing any kind of integrated fiscal policies and pretending to be paragon of virtue despite their own economy being broken and unbalanced, them sacrificing Greece to save their own banks, the current commission being a bunch of yes people selected for loyalty and at the service of a corrupt and mediocre politician usurping diplomatic powers which the treaties don’t give her, a parliament largely consisting of failed politicians ignoring the opinion of their own citizen, legislation being mostly written and solely proposed by disconnected technocrats overpaid and paying far less taxes than the common men, eastern countries wanting nothing more than being lapdog of the US, everyone being prisoners because the treaties don’t provide a path for an orderly exit from the Eurozone, and Germany using their political capital to help themselves and themselves only at every time it’s convenient - see how regulation on car emissions will stop, debt funded investments will suddenly become desirable when it suits their economy, and how terrible international commercial agreements are suddenly good if they can export a few more cars - what is there exactly to like about the EU?
Sorry I’m extremely cynical about the whole thing and it might show. Such a joy being able to surrender our sovereignty to people we have nothing in common with, neither culture, nor language, nor vision for the future, let alone desire to live together.