• smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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    5 months ago

    Yeah. It’s also just so incongruous with everything the EU usually (tries to) stand for.

    The best thing would be if the courts decide that mandatory client side scanning is plain illegal. But for that the measure has to pass, so someone can sue. Not a pleasant prospect.

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      5 months ago

      everything the EU usually (tries to) stand for

      only when for itself. there’s a lot to (and which I do) like about the EU from the outside, but also a lot not

      courts decide … measure has to pass

      yeah and the moment the floodgates are open, there will be a long tail of this shit everywhere that’ll take an immensely long time to get cleaned up. and possibly may never be fully cleaned up. just like the current problem of surveillance-based advertising, which I’m not sure whether it can fully go away even if the very business model itself is made untenable - a lot of that infrastructure will die, but some will find new homes in more unsavoury purposes