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[🏴‍☠️ The Pirate 🏴‍☠️ @Pinperepette]

Oggi, tra le 12:00 e le 14:00, il Parlamento europeo vota il Chat Control.

Se pensate che la privacy sia un diritto e non una concessione, questo è il momento di fare casino. Non domani, quando il voto sarà già passato.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1900, John D. Rockefeller controlled approximately 90 percent of all petroleum refining in the United States. He was, by some calculations, the richest private individual who had ever lived.

He had a problem. Scientists were discovering that compounds derived from coal tar, a petroleum byproduct, could be used as synthetic medicines. Aspirin, derived from coal tar, had been launched by Bayer in 1899. The petroleum waste stream Rockefeller had previously had to dispose of could now be sold back to the public as medicine at a markup of roughly 10,000 percent.

He had another problem. American medicine in 1900 was a competitive ecosystem of homeopaths, herbalists, naturopaths, osteopaths, midwives, and traditional doctors who used food, plants, water, and lifestyle as the primary tools of healing. Approximately half of all American medical schools taught some form of natural or alternative medicine.

Rockefeller bought into the German pharmaceutical industry, eventually taking a substantial stake in IG Farben, the conglomerate that included Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst. He then commissioned a report.

The report was written by Abraham Flexner, an educator with no medical training, funded by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, and published in 1910. It declared that natural and alternative medical schools were unscientific quackery. It recommended the closure of more than half of all American medical schools and the standardisation of the rest around medicine based on synthetic patented drugs.

Congress acted. Half of American medical schools closed within a decade. The remainder accepted Rockefeller and Carnegie funding on the condition that their curricula be reorganised around pharmaceutical treatment. Nutrition was removed. Herbal medicine was removed. Lifestyle intervention was removed. The doctor's job was redefined: diagnose the symptom, prescribe the drug.

The drugs were petroleum-derived. The petroleum was supplied by Rockefeller-controlled refineries. The medical schools were funded by Rockefeller. The journals were funded by Rockefeller. The AMA was supported by Rockefeller. The hospitals were funded by Rockefeller.

By 1925, the American medical system was a vertically integrated extension of the petroleum industry, operating under the marketing slogan that it was scientific.

This is the system that exists today.

The pharmaceutical industry generates approximately $1.5 trillion in annual revenue. The American population, 4 percent of the global total, consumes approximately 50 percent of all pharmaceuticals manufactured.

The system was not designed to make people healthy. The system was designed to manage symptoms in a way that produces lifetime customers. A healthy patient is a former customer. A managed patient, who takes the pill every day for the rest of their life, is an annuity.

The objective has always been to keep you in that profitable corridor between healthy and dead.

Long enough to keep buying. Not so well that you stop.

The doctor who advises you to fix your metabolism by changing your diet is, from the point of view of the system that trained him, a defective product. The doctor who prescribes you a statin, a metformin, an antidepressant, and a blood pressure medication for life is performing exactly as designed.

The system was designed by an oil baron who needed to sell the waste products of his refineries.

It still functions, 116 years after the Flexner Report, exactly the way he designed it.

You are the customer.

The corridor is where you live.

[🏴‍☠️ The Pirate 🏴‍☠️ @Pinperepette]

La mia bandiera è quella pirata: almeno rappresenta onestamente ciò che conta davvero, libertà, autonomia e zero inchini ai poteri che pretendono fedeltà senza meritarla.

[Daily Romania @daily_romania]

The EU does not represent Europe

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

How long before the EU is gone?

AbolishTheEU

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

An important victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control.

The Council of Ministers in the EU has, after three years, now reached a common position on Chat Control. The requirement for mandatory scanning (including end-to-end encrypted messaging services) has been removed, which is a major victory. The EU Council failed to implement mandatory mass surveillance. However, in its proposal, they are laying the groundwork for mass surveillance in the future.

What happens now?

The Council will now enter negotiations with the European Parliament, led by the European Commission. We urge the Parliament to stand firm in the trilogue negotiations and not deviate an inch from its previous position, demanding: no mass surveillance whatsoever without suspicion and a court order, no ID-verification requirements, and no censorship of legal content.

The EU Council is preparing for mandatory mass surveillance and censorship

The Council’s version of Chat Control includes voluntary scanning, vaguely worded legislation that may entail requirements for age verification and mandatory ID checks (even for end-to-end encrypted services), and an article stating that the requirement for mandatory scanning shall be reconsidered every three years. They also introduce a new infrastructure for blocking material, where it is up to each member state to block what they consider illegal. At the same time, a massive EU center is being established to work exclusively on this. All in all, this indicates that the EU Council is aiming to build an infrastructure for mass surveillance, and the legislative proposal is written in a way that opens the door to it.

The EU Council’s Chat Control version

- The EU Council’s Chat Control version introduces a new type of scanning for so-called new material and grooming. This means that AI will scan people’s conversations, photos and videos, in search of criminal content. This will result in enormous numbers of false positives, and people’s private lives will move from an AI detection to being examined by employees at a new EU center. This is mass surveillance and people’s private lives will be scanned without any suspicion and without a court order. This scanning is carried out in cooperation with American companies and can at any time be used to scan for virtually anything; Europol has already requested broader scanning and wants access to material that is not illegal.

- Every three years, the European Commission will challenge the law and attempt to force mandatory scanning (even for end-to-end-encrypted services). Messaging services (including end-to-end encrypted) must take “all reasonable measures” to reduce the risk of their services being misused, including implementation of age verification. This means that the EU may require ID checks and ban anonymous use of messaging services and social media. This poses problems for people who criticize those in power in authoritarian countries, for whistleblowers who want to leak documents, and for sources who wish to speak anonymously with journalists.

- A new infrastructure for blocking material is introduced, where it’s up to each of the member states to issue blocking orders for what they consider illegal. This implies that content that is illegal in one country will also be blocked in a country where it is legal. Once this infrastructure is in place, it also opens the door to a slippery slope when it comes to censorship.

Stop Chat Control

From the outset, Chat Control was a proposal that aimed to introduce mass surveillance. That ambition is clearly still present within the Commission and among many of the member states in the Council. The Council failed to introduce mass surveillance but has succeeded in paving the way for new attempts. This applies not only to future proposals for mandatory chat control scanning every three years. This is part of a broader development in which private and secure communication is being challenged by forces seeking to introduce mass surveillance. ProtectEU is a rebranded Chat Control, aimed at banning encryption. National laws are trying to do the same. We need to put a stop to these attempts here and now.

[Lakshya Lark @lakshyalark]

The only reason I’m on WhatsApp is that no one uses Telegram 😭

[Pavel Durov @durov]

I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.

Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.

What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.

Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).

Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.

A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.

We’ve been fed a lie.

We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.

By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.

So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

If you don’t believe in free speech for people who you disagree with, and even hate for what they stand for, then you don’t believe in free speech.

[🏴‍☠️ The Pirate 🏴‍☠️ @Pinperepette]

Stanno sfruttando il caso Phica per spingere l’ennesima agenda di controllo totale. La narrativa è sempre la stessa: qualunque scusa è buona. 'Eh ma Pirata, il caso Phica è sconvolgente!'… Celebroleso, respira che ti spiego: se una moglie si fa fotografare dal marito e lui condivide le foto senza il tuo consenso, il problema è il marito, non il social network. Il social è solo lo strumento: se gli impedisci di farlo lì, lo farà altrove.
E qui il punto tecnico: ogni volta che usano questi casi come pretesto, ti infilano nuovi livelli di censura, filtri obbligatori, algoritmi che analizzano ogni tuo file e ogni tuo messaggio prima che venga inviato. In pratica ti mettono sotto sorveglianza preventiva. Quindi spiegami, perché devono pagare tutti se tuo marito è un coglione? La soluzione non è distruggere la libertà di internet, ma punire chi commette il reato.

[Chibi Reviews @ChibiReviews]

Don't stop talking about the rampant Censorship

Don't stop talking about Payment Processors being a monopoly

Don't stop talking about how dangerous forced ID is online

Don't let Governments use the optics of "Think of the Children" to strip your rights away

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

X has banned @Gab__AI which quickly become a competiter of @grok

Gab is AI but without so many guardrails and much more truthful than Grok

Let's get #FreeGab trending

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Using a VPN isn’t going to protect you if ISPs and the websites/apps you care about require/mandate ID verification with *continuous biometric verification* meaning to be scanning your face at all times when consuming content.

The free internet is dead. Your every move tracked.

[EROS ❤️‍🔥⛓️ VA @Seren_Eros]

PARENTS should be held responsible for what their kids do on the internet, NOT the GOVERNMENT. But we all know this isn’t really about the kids.

[Resist CBDC 🏁 @Resist_CBDC]

#DoNotComply

That’s 👆 me. Can’t be repeated enough.

[matteo amenta @AmentaMatteo]

@Tectone 🫡