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Piratenpartij Nederland

@piratenpartij.nl

And then?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsbg...

#ChatControl #StopChatControl #VPN #Privacy

And then? Chat Control | Mullvad VPN

YouTube video by Mullvad VPN

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December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

Denmark seems to want to quietly ban VPNs over christmas?

#savespeech #denmark #chatcontrol #stopchatcontrol

eupolicy.social/@je5perl/115...

Jesper Lund (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image The Danish government is using the upcoming Christmas break to slip through a public consultation for a draft law that would make it an OFFENCE to use a #VPN to access content that ...

eupolicy.social

December 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM

LewdNote Studio🔞

@flipnotespice.bsky.social

Speak up residents of EU.

SPEAK UP.

#StopChatControl #Censorship

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 8d

#SaveSpeech

Next week, Chat Control is going to go through more Trilogue negotiations. currently 23 member states support CC while only 4 oppose.

Contact your MPs/MEPs and demand they say NO to Chat Control!

fightchatcontrol.eu

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

fightchatcontrol.eu

December 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

They'll be launching a digital ID app in spring 2026, according to danish news.

Danes? You there?

#denmark #savespeech #chatcontrol #stopchatcontrol

megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 25d

Danes in chat, you reaaaallly oughta call your government folks more about this

#privacy #denmark #danmark #savespeech

www.netinfluencer.com/denmark-prop...

Denmark Proposes Introducing Sweeping Youth Social-Media Ban

Denmark’s government has announced an agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under 15, positioning the country as among the most aggressive in Europe in regulating children’s online activi...

www.netinfluencer.com

November 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM

Pixelcode 🇺🇦

@pixelcode.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy

RE: https://gruene.social/@kaibojens/115639513929993501

Today, the German Green party passed a resolution that not only demands a permanent end to #chatcontrol, but also demands a right to encryption to be added to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the #europeanunion!

#StopChatcontrol #Grüne

gruene.social

November 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM

Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation

@discord12395.bsky.social

The wordings in this article by @reuters.com is dismissive on "online child safety" bills like Chat Control & KOSA.

While CSAM is a major issue, this type of framing can excuse governments to spy on you and silence you. An invasion of privacy + trampling on free speech. #SaveSpeech #StopChatControl

Reuters

EU states back away from forcing Big Tech to detect and remove child pornography

By Reuters

November 26, 20254:20 PM CST
Updated November 26, 2025

BRUSSELS, Nov 26 (Reuters) - European Union member states have agreed a common position on draft online child protection legislation without forcing global tech companies to identify and remove online child sexual abuse.

The position, announced on Wednesday by the European Council, represents a victory for U.S. companies such as Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, Meta (META.O), opens new tab and others as well as for anti-surveillance activists who had argued the draft rules threaten privacy. It is part of a wider pushback against regulation led by U.S. President Donald Trump.

November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM

Master Dansan

@masterdansan.bsky.social

✍️ Sign and share the #stopchatcontrol petition: the EU wants to scan all your messages, including encrypted ones, weaken encryption and impose mass surveillance on 450M Europeans. www.change.org/nonchatcontrol

Signez la pétition

NON à la mise sur écoute de votre téléphone avec Chat Control

www.change.org

November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM

mailbox

@mailbox.org

Verpflichtende Chatkontrolle verhindert!

Danke an alle Mitstreitenden, die mit uns gemeinsam gegen den umstrittenen Gesetzesvorschlag gekämpft haben.

Slides: Wie es jetzt weitergeht und was wir fordern.

Hintergründe: mailbox.org/de/news/chat...

#StopChatControl #Chatkontrolle

November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM

Piratenpartij Nederland

@piratenpartij.nl

De motie van @barbarakathmann #GroenLinksPvdA is aangenomen! Dit betekent dat het Kabinet morgen tegen gaat stemmen.

#StopChatControl

November 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

There's a council meeting + likely vote on this today. Maybe make some last-minute calls before it moves to the next stage?

#savespeech #chatcontrol #stopchatcontrol

Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 27d

Important update

Thanks to the sheer volume of citizens raising their voices in opposition, the Danish Presidency has been forced to update its Chat Control compromise text to include the following recital: 

"(17a) Nothing in this Regulation should be understood as imposing any detection obligations on providers."
 
The final proposal 15318/25 containing recital 17a is now heading for Coreper (Committee of Permanent Representations). Once approved, the position formally adopted by Council will thus exclude mandatory scanning. Council is expected to officially adopt its position the 18th or 19th. We should then expect trilogue to commence.

Next steps

While this presents a “quick fix” in response to public pressure that legally is not a good solution, it is a much better position than before and one that can be worked with. The multiple flaws and inconsistencies that remain (e.g. mandatory age verification effectively outlawing anonymous communication and planned “voluntary” mass scanning) can be amended during trilogue with the European Parliament.

While Danish Minister of Justice and Chief Architect of Chat Control Peter Hummelgaard, and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, are likely to attempt an expedited process, a deal is unlikely to be reached in December. They will likely try to complete the deal in Q1 of 2026. As negotiations commence, contact your MEPs and let them know how you would like them to vote and protect your codified rights to privacy.

November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM

mailbox

@mailbox.org

Chatkontrolle: Nächste Woche soll der neue, immer noch inakzeptable Gesetzesentwurf beschlossen werden. Geben wir nicht auf!

Das können Sie jetzt tun, um digitale Privatsphäre zu schützen: mailbox.org/de/news/chat...

#StopChatControl #Chatkontrolle

November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM

omniscient

@omni-potent.bsky.social

we have to take this down for good #stopchatcontrol

November 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM

dzz Yenn

@dz-yenn.bsky.social

Siiiigh... Here we go again. x__x;;;

🇪🇺 #ChatControl #StopChatControl

To remember:
🌐 fightchatcontrol.eu
🌐ℹ️ www.chatcontrol.eu
🌐🇩🇪 stopchatcontrol.eu
🌐🇫🇷 stopchatcontrol.fr

These campaigns might need an update.
🖋️🇩🇪 www.change.org/stopchatcont...
🖋️🇫🇷 www.change.org/p/non-%C3%A0...
🖋️🇪🇸 nochatcontrol.org

Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · Nov 12

What happened today?

Behind closed doors, the Law Enforcement Working Party group approved the revised Danish Chat Control compromise with broad support. While mandatory scanning had officially been dropped, Article 4 of the new text reframes and reintroduces it by obliging providers of e-mail, chat, and messenger services to take “all appropriate risk mitigation measures”. This effectively forces providers to scan all messages, including private, end-to-end encrypted content.

The same article outlaws anonymous communication by requiring every citizen to verify their age before accessing a service, kneecapping whistleblowers, journalists, political activists, and people seeking help who depend on anonymity. Article 6 further imposes a digital house arrest and would ban minors from installing software which comes with a significant risk of grooming, such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and online games like Roblox.

What happens next?

The legislation now moves to the Coreper (Committee of Permanent Representations) for approval. Without major political objections, the Council will formally adopt its position. At this stage, both the Council and Commission unite in imposing mass surveillance on all 450 million citizens of the European Union and we enter a rushed trilogue. Unfortunately, while the mandate of the European Parliament does not suffer from the same flaws, the Parliament is traditionally known for giving in.

What now?

We raise our voices. Louder.

November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

Maybe you're tired of seeing posts about this.

I'm tired of quoting and reposting it too.

But I'm even MORE tired of the constant attempts to turn the EU into a fucking surveillance state so, please help make that not happen.

#chatcontrol #stopchatcontrol #savespeech #stopscanningme

Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · Nov 12

November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

Please speak up

#savespeech #chatcontrol #stopchatcontrol #privacy #europe #eu @eff.org @signal.org @tuta.com @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

fightchatcontrol.eu

November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

YELL AT YOUR REPS

If your government truly wants to give a shit about your online safety, transforming the EU into a surveillance dystopia is NOT IT

#savespeech #chatcontrol #stopchatcontrol #denmark #eu #germany #spain #privacy #europe #ireland

Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · Nov 12

November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

It doesn't matter who you are or what you believe in

If you want to still have any semblance of privacy left online here in the EU

You need to fucking call your reps.

#saveprivacy #privacy #chatcontrol #stopchatcontrol #savespeech #eu #europe

Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · Nov 12

November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

Contact your MEPs or you will never have privacy in the EU internet again.

#savespeech #privacy #chatcontrol #stopchatcontrol #eu #europe

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Nov 12

#SaveSpeech

if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner.

continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.

Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · Nov 12

November 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

Seconding this post. This is not where we give up, this is where we go all hands on deck with speaking up.

#savespeech #chatcontrol #stopchatcontrol #privacy #eu

viv "ref sheet FINISHED" ia @bigtimegoat.bsky.social · Nov 13

friendly reminder, its not over til its fully over.
keep flooding them.
fightchatcontrol.eu

the website has DIRECT PHONE NUMBERS of representatives. even one call can help, far more than you think.

November 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

Chatcontrol is not dead, it may have been agreed to by the council. Please contact your MEPs.

#stopchatcontrol #chatcontrol #savespeech

www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

November 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

The backdoor proposal also includes EFFECTIVELY MANDATORY SCANNING OF ALL IMAGE *AND* TEXT MESSAGES VIA "HIGH RISK" ORDERS

The "voluntary" part of the new proposal is a SHAM

PLEASE CALL YOUR MEPS *RIGHT THE FUCK NOW*

#chatcontrol #stopchatcontrol #privacy #saveprivacy

November 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

Please, make noise.

#savespeech #chatcontrol #stopchatcontrol #privacy @eff.org @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social

fightchatcontrol.eu

November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

Quoting this to make it more visible. They're voting for it tomorrow. Tell them to stop, or you lose all privacy.

#savespeech #chatcontrol #stopchatcontrol #fightchatcontrol #privacy #eu

fightchatcontrol.eu

November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM

megasoups.bsky.social

@megasoups.bsky.social

It is worth stating chatcontrol isn't dead yet and we might see a new version of it proposed this week or the next.

Do call your reps and MEPs, especially in critical countries like germany.

#stopchatcontrol #chatcontrol

fightchatcontrol.eu

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

fightchatcontrol.eu

November 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM