Based on a new proposal by the Belgian Minister of the Interior, EU governments could endorse the much-criticised child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR or chat control) as early as June after all. This is what internal information leaked to Pirate Party MEP and shadow rapporteur Patrick Breyer reveals
This will probably just make peer to peer messaging apps more popular.
Briar is pretty cool if you’re on Android.
What’s the advantage over signal?
If you have Internet it uses tor and there’s no main server to rely on.
If there’s no Internet it can use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi locally.
Very cool and impressive, but I’d rather be able to share arbitrary files.
And looks like you can only send images in DMs, but not in groups/forums.
Well, ones that aren’t based on a service operating in the EU, at any rate.
I don’t think that most people will care
99 percent of people won’t care, won’t understand, or just be part of the mindset of why be scared if we have nothing to hide.
Only us techs will care
Facts, if I could donate a star or gold I would
I just don’t get it why mainsteam media almost never reports about this.
Because it’s not been free press for a long time.
Remember when journalism was supposed to be outrageous? That’s not a mark of quality, that’s a rule. If it’s not outrageous, then it’s most likely not journalism.
It also never reports on wars outside of the agreed upon narrative. There’s time and narrative for everything. That doesn’t happen with free press. There may not be open censorship and coercion, but not seeing something is different from knowing it doesn’t exist.
this could finally be a good “reason” to convice some people near me to get into meshtastic
Less likely peer-to-peer, more likely selfhostable.
Just in time for me to finally have completed my Matrix setup a few days ago.
I prefer XMPP, which is lighter, but I have a Matrix server too and get why you’d prefer it.
Like a choice between cake and pizza.