Your data. Your feed. Your control.
The fediverse was built on communities, not corporations, deciding how they interact.
The Digital Services Act now brings that same accountability to the rest of the web.
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#chatcontrol #digitalomnibus and #ageverification directly conflict with the decentralized, privacy-respecting internet the fediverse represents. The fediverse thrives on:
Anonymous/pseudonymous participation
End-to-end encryption options
No centralized identity verification
User autonomy
You can't have both "your data, your control" and mandatory ID checks plus content scanning infrastructure.
@EUCommission great! let's encourage more people to the fediverse as our democratic, open-source solution.
@EUCommission What is this supposed to mean? Can somebody explain? Thanks in advance.
@EUCommission EU Commission preaching "Your data. Your feed. Your control" is hilarious. DSA is Stasi 2.0, forcing platforms to censor whatever Brussels labels "harmful". Chat control scans every message, ends privacy. EU questions speech, borders, innovation, sovereignty, but never its unelected commissars power-tripping over 450 million people. Who voted for this digital surveillance empire?
@EUCommission
Ok!?!
If you click the others sharebutton, there will be
X
WhatsApp
SMS
GMail
Print
Typepad
Pinterest
...
Mastodon
Bluesky
And by the way, its Fediverse, not Mastodon
Interesting to see whether this will be true also regarding Chat Control (CSAM) and the EU. I think it is something very destructive to even consider.
How did someone think that it is a good idea to start mass surveillance on people's privacy, and leave a backdoor that can be used by criminals?
AI scanning and flagging messages is basically the same that China is doing all the time. So better stop moralizing then, if you are actually going to do the same. I am not for it.
The EU is not "Europe." Please stop equating the two.
Also, I'm not more interested in "European" big tech than the US or other versions.
@EUCommission In the Netherlands one word comes to mind: DigID 😟
@EUCommission thus making the fediverse irrelevant because it no longer have a differential advantage for people. How can we convince people to join after that?
YES 
@EUCommission I see a lot of comments praising the Fediverse, and in the two weeks I have been here, I still find it difficult to share their enthusiasm.
@EUCommission do you read what you type?
"Your data. Your feed. Your control."
So you're ditching your Digital Omnibus project to make our data, our feeds, a free for all for the training of large language models (which will deprive us of our control)?
@EUCommission And how are you doing?
Me:
@EUCommission
Not really.
You censor and supress anti genocide voices
@EUCommission
Interesting line-breaks in text. Some side effect of posting to multiple platforms? 🤔
@EUCommission yet sadly not my politicians. They're all on X ... 
@EUCommission
DE:
Hoffentlich!
Jetzt noch das Gelernte auf die IT der EU Übertragen: Dezentralität, FOSS und Datenschutz immer zuerst!
EN:
Hopefully!
Now it's time to apply your learnings to EU IT: decentralization, FOSS, and data protection always come first!
🧐
@EUCommission You have the means, and the correct platform (Mastodon). Now tell MEPs to leave X, where the discourse is controlled by an American oligarch, and address EU citizens exclusively on Mastodon, where they can’t be silenced or censored, and the EU has complete control. #leavex #EUMastodon
@EUCommission Bye Big Tech! Hello FOSS!
Btw, it would be kinda awesome if the EU could find some Euros tucked away somewhere and sponsor (EU-hosted) Fediverse instances 😉
For the EU it's a small amount but for the Fedi it could be evolutionary
@EUCommission Why are all those spaces missing in the text?
@EUCommission Since the EC also wants "Big Tech" to scan all communications with AI and people are tracked continuously under the supervision of kafkaesque bureaucracy, who will control this feed if #chatcontrol is approved?
@EUCommission y'all are gonna stop chat control right? Right?
@EUCommission the on to stopping chat control, right? Right?
@EUCommission Bull shit. All you're saying is the EU is in control, not the people, at the end of the day. No better than the US government's attempt to control. Just another police state.
@EUCommission yes, that is good.
We would all, also appreciate it, if the EU Commission decides to protect our privacy as per EU Charter and moves against Chat Control.
Protecting children and privacy shouldn't happen at the expense of the other.
We can understand that article 52 states : “Subject to the principle of proportionality, limitations may be made only if they are necessary and genuinely meet objectives of
general interest recognised by the Union or the need to protect the rights and freedoms of others.”
Infringing on the rights of people to protect children may seem commendable (?) but the objectives of protecting the rights and freedoms of children are not met by these measures either.
Unfortunately, the rights of children are also at risk because age assurance measures are left up to third parties that misuse this data. It only takes a single misuse incident for such data to be online forever, both for children and adults, who then fall prey to AI exploitation.
Exploitation such as, undressing via dedicated AI models all the way to biometric surveillance. We can't allow people to live in fear of exploitation, as we have seen in America (ICE) where such data is indeed being misused to target individuals and often so by racial discrimination.
@EUCommission Good news: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
Bad news: Politicians, organisations and media still use that swamp. Leave X!!!
Then stop Chat Control now, privacy is an inalienable right.
#ChatControl #StopChatControl #EU #EuropeanUnion #Privacy #ClientSideScanning
@EUCommission
So you're gonna stop chat control?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnspeakableUser/115759585413408367
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@EUCommission For the European Commission, such toots are like a thermometer stuck up the European's bum.
I hope they listen.
@EUCommission If you think that the Fediverse is so good, why aren't you taking more steps to embrace it?
Stop chat control!
Stop dismantling digital rights!
Leave corporate media platforms!
@EUCommission If fediverse is so good why are you still on X
@EUCommission Stop Chat Control.
@EUCommission wish ppl cared more...
@EUCommission sure, with fines that aren't even felt by giant tech companies that make more in an hour?
@EUCommission good but stop chat control
@EUCommission Too much talking, not enough action. Leave X now.
@EUCommission
Okay, now stop trying to read my private messages on e2ee channels.
@EUCommission then stop chat control!
@EUCommission is that the reason Mastodon had to register in the US as a non-profit because european/german law was so cumbersome that it was not worth the hassle?
@EUCommission yep our data, so now #StopChatcontrol
@EUCommission one of my favourite underrated features of mastodon is the user having filters to remove anything they don't want to see. The fact this is not normal on the web really highlights that ones viewing of a website or app is not for the users benefit
@EUCommission tell me more 
The main issue I see with the Digital Service Act is that it is mainly a cashgrep for lawyers. I already see customers trying to rule lawyer it to the point where they don't need to change anything
(It's actually surprising how much energy they put into this. If they'd only invest a fraction of that energy in actually addressing the issues everyone would be better off, them included...)
@EUCommission Now end chat control.
@EUCommission So, what exactly happened in August 2023? Tell me, please.
@EUCommission why is it so hard to stop EU->US data transfers?
@EUCommission Hope you will do your very best not to weaken the DSA. ✅
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Hello @decorum!
We are proud of the DSA and the protections it offers our citizens. While we are planning a set of reforms to make our data rules easier to understand and use, our simplification efforts are explicitly stated not to change or undermine the main objectives of EU digital rules, such as protecting personal data and ensuring safe AI.