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Aral Balkan

“European Commission announced … follow-up legislation that will make the use of chatcontrol mandatory for all e-mail and messenger providers.”

patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/mes

Guess what isn’t covered by this? Yes, the Small Web. Is it time to take the idea that we could all own our own places on the Web and communicate with each other privately seriously? I think so, at least.

small-tech.org/research-and-de

Patrick BreyerMessaging and Chat ControlBy Julia Weber

@aral so, in terms of messengers, just use your own matrix server. Don't trust anybody, your data under your control.

Phew, like a banner ad. I should discuss payroll with Matrix Foundation :02Dab:

@aral Any way to fight against it at the random-person level? I am not a programmer, cannot create from nothing new non-spying app, but I feel the need to do something, act instead of waiting for doom. Like Snowden wrote in "Permanent Record" that he hosted TOR node after found about that all surveillance and he wasn't yet sure what to do with it... Or joining some organization or something... To be a part of something bigger, to use technical knowledge to create something...

@aral
Doesn't this exclude people whose ISPs don't allow the hosting of services?

@aral OK, I'm listening.

I've been thinking about this, too.

One of my fears is that a lot of this legislation targeted at the giants will make it impossible for individuals and small players to run their own servers, since the regulations would be too cumbersome for small players to comply with.