The results are showing up… Now we have to hope for the law to be declined… Already discussed about the chat control law of the EU, here : https://lemmy.ml/post/16469106

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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    21 days ago

    But why can’t you just use software from GitHub or F-Droid or something that doesn’t have to obey these laws? Is it illegal?

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      21 days ago

      good luck getting everyone you know to communicate with you with “software from GitHub or F-Droid or something”. I’m having a hard time making people try out Signal, which is freely available on the major app stores (and which, by the way, has declared that they’ll leave the EU market if one device scanning will be enforced on them).

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      21 days ago

      In fact it would be illegal but you wouldn’t take risks by using them. But the authorities could make them shut down one by one

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        21 days ago

        Even if this is illegal - how would such usage be detected? Your device just makes a request to a random domain on a random VPS, and the traffic is TLS-encrypted - would usage of XMPP/Matrix/whatever be that distinct?

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          21 days ago

          I totally understand and this approval is absolutely ridiculous just because it’s almost impossible apply this… But even with almost 0 chance applying to every apps it’s better to kill this law as soon as possible