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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 10h

Germany decided not to turn its back on privacy, at the last minute. We're very happy for that.

But we're not out of the woods yet, and awareness raising like this is essential.

Follow bsky.app/profile/figh... to stay up to date, and see a bit more on where we are here: bsky.app/profile/mere...

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

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ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 2d

Consoles at this point are just pc’s without the freedom and genre variety of pc’s

ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 2d

/r/battlefield and sort on new, everybody is very calm and collected

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Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 3d

Since Denmark can attempt another vote in December, it is important to stay vigilant. Both Italy and Sweden remain undecided while France remains supportive despite Chat Control being in direct violation of its Résilience bill explicitly forbidding both forced backdoors and client-side scanning.

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ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 3d

Unfortunately technology has advanced and now it’s badly implemented ID checks that result in it getting stolen

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ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 3d

Parents cant even use it responsibly and they grew up with it. It’s opium for the masses just like this bill

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Lemur Implosion Energy @lemurdank.bsky.social · 3d

bans are popular because its easy, the alternative would be admitting that an entire generation of parents and educators have failed their children

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Lemur Implosion Energy @lemurdank.bsky.social · 3d

oh I think that having 15 year olds who have had no exposure to an ai slop riddled internet will certianly not be oneshot when given access to it without stuff like online saftey classes

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Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 4d

Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level."

Source: www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Z...

Zitat

Anlasslose Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein. Private Kommunikation darf nie unter Generalverdacht stehen.“

www.bmjv.de

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Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 5d

🇩🇪 Germany is AGAINST Chat Control:

Jens Spahn: "We as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group are against indiscriminate monitoring of chats. That would be like preemptively opening all letters to check whether there's something illegal in them. That's not acceptable, that won't happen under our watch."

Germany voices opposition to Chat Control, tilting the balance.

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ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 5d

What do you use now? Tidal?

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ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 5d

Putting your head in the sand isn’t going to help.

ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 5d

Don't go spreading around misinformation just because you are annoyed at the state of things or don't understand how it actually technically works. The US Signal debacle was not caused by Signal but by human stupidity. You are helping them destroy your own rights.

ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 5d

Signal (the app) is built on the open source Signal protocol, which is used worldwide by people in oppressive regimes, whistleblowers, almost the entire cyber/infosec sphere, lawyers, etc. Where it is made is irrelevant.

And it is just one of the E2EE apps that are ACTUALLY private.

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ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 5d

I think you completely misunderstand what this bill represents. Read up on it www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/cha...

Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal

🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0, stopchatcontrol.fr🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇩🇰 Danish: chatcontrol.dk🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Cor...

www.patrick-breyer.de

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ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 6d

A government that can be trusted to make use of certain things with decency today might not in 5,10,20,… years. When creating new laws, you always have to think how they can be misused.

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ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 7d

Not only the UK, unfortunately

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 8d

#Discord got breached on Sept 20. Lol, lmao even.

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Signal @signal.org · 9d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Foofarawr 🍂 @foofarawr.com · 10d

I don't repost stuff often enough
#pixelart

A pixel art scene of the Pokemon Gyarados at the Lake of Rage. Top down view. There is a sunset happening in the back. A fishing hut is seen in the lower right. A mountain range is seen behind the lake. At the shoreline, a trainer and their Meganium can be seen, ready for battle.

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Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 10d

IMPORTANT UPDATE:
 Denmark has scheduled a vote on Chat Control the 14th of October. Despite not wanting to break end-to-end encryption, 🇩🇪 Germany remains both UNDECIDED and critical to defeating the proposal.
 If you are German, contact your Bundestag members today via fightchatcontrol.de !

Screenshot of the Fight Chat Control website (https://fightchatcontrol.eu/) in German showing the Bundestag members. It is now possible to contact Bundestag members directly to express your concerns about Chat Control.

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ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 10d

Please sell Command & Conquer to Petroglyph, thanks EA

dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 10d

It's getting harder to imagine a world where EA and Ubisoft don't collapse and sell of significant amount of their IP in the next five years.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 11d

Eurogamer: Ubisoft and Tencent announce new subsidiary, Vantage Studios, to lead development for the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Six franchises

www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-and-...

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 10d

30 bucks a month lets you buy 1-2 indie games, support an independent games media outlet of your choice, and the majority of your money will go to a human being who worked hard to make something cool

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ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 11d

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ctrlaltwin.bsky.social @ctrlaltwin.bsky.social · 11d

The problem with game pass price increases is you only have x amount of time to play games.

It doesn’t matter how much they add to it, gamepass already is more expensive than my usual game buying habits

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