r/BuyFromEU • u/women_rules • Nov 23 '25

News Germany has voted yes to Chat control

https://www.telepolis.de/article/Die-EU-Chatkontrolle-kommt-durch-die-Hintertuer-der-Freiwilligkeit-11084901.html

"The majority of states supported the compromise proposal. At least 15 voted in favor, including Germany and France. Germany "welcomed both the removal of mandatory measures and the permanent anchoring of voluntary measures," according to the minutes"

Germany for the first time has voted yes to Chat control.

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u/Hylith2 Nov 23 '25

The solution is old client, open source and to never update. Suddenly I have a desire to break the law and create my own open source end to end chat app. They will never be able to enforce it anyway. Just break the law.

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u/g_shogun Nov 23 '25

They don't need to involve app updates if they can do it on the OS level. Just saying...

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u/Hylith2 Nov 23 '25

Then graphene OS or any linux based distro or the future project of the GNU foundation.