Aggiornamento Chat Control: nessuna scansione obbligatoria

However, there is still one sore point: the text still contains the requirement for platforms to verify their age, yet this requirement is not included in the Parliament’s mandate and there is a good chance it will be eliminated in the trilogues. What else can we do? Go to fightchatcontrol.eu and write to our MEPs to keep the issue of eliminating the age verification requirement.

I’m so glad. Danish eu presidency ends soon so this can be beaten back at least temporarily. And danish elections are in a year or so, hope they can get a more responsible government

The idea is awful and has been awful for many years. It doesn’t address or fix the issue it pretends to be concerned about.

And it feels like it is only being pushed on behest of malicious actors seeking to harm/undermine Europe or Europeans.

The idea of making all messages vulnerable to malicious actors, incompetent actors, rogue agents, political entities trying to harm their opposition and such is crazy and defies reason. It also endangers the group they supposedly wants to protect. Parents don’t want to give keys to weirdos and hostile entities to check their messages discussing where their family will be gathering or where their children are at daycare.

**The actual ways to solve the problems it pretends to want to address**:

1. Create a safe space on the internet for the demographic they pretend to be concerned over. A monitored area with easy ways to request help and to make complaints. This is much more feasible and effective rather than twisting literally everything online into awkward dystopian security and privacy nightmare states. (Lack of security and privacy for adults AND kids **endangers both**. Handing sites and hackers easy means of blackmailing, doxxing, stealing identities, stalking, abusing users and their families would be horrible.)

2. Each nation should have an easy and safe way for young people to make complaints. “Some weirdo posted disgusting pictures to me. Here is the chat and link to their Twitter account. Thought you should know.” And sites could be mandated to have effective blocking against users who make others feel unsafe and uncomfortable. And there could even be a toggle for: “Hide users who’ve been blocked by X% of users they’ve interacted with.” This would also reduce the amount of bots who invite others to chats just to link malware.

3. Only applying: “Please verify your age.” garbage to connections from households with minors in them. So if a connection is flagged as: “Only adults live in this home. / This SIM is owned by an adult.” Then leave them alone as ID stuff is such a huge security risk and will allow way too much crime to occur.

These are the examples of actual ways to fix what they pretend to be concerned about.