They always hide behind the claim it’s for the children… but how many children have they actually saved from this?
If consent mattered, governments and corporations all around the world wouldn’t be pushing to expand the global surveillance apparatus.
Is this just another Tuesday now? Fuck me.
I’d vote for testing this mass chat control on politicians and CEOs of the companies that want this mass control. Let’s say for the next 10 years? Or 20? Pretty sure the results will be great. For people, for justice, for democracy.
That won’t happen. What will happen is that functionality will be there, on paper requiring your consent, but you’ll never know how many times they’ve used it without consent.
They will read your correspondence, find threats to their power, make sure by soft nudges that those never materialize.
People saying that USSR was democratic will get to live in one, only without even the ideology of “freeing the humanity, building communism and colonizing space”.
Even if you don’t opt in, 99% of the people you interact with would have opted in. So you will monitored as they please.
As if any chat systems inteded for dubious purposes in the darknet would give a flying f-ck about this law.
This will probably just make peer to peer messaging apps more popular.
this could finally be a good “reason” to convice some people near me to get into meshtastic
I just ordered a couple nodes a few days ago