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[Max Villman @MaxVillman]

Abort this sh*t immediately!

[Arcdeous @Arcdeous]

@vonderleyen “EU’s ChatControl wants to scan your private messages ‘for the children.’
In Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother watched everyone for ‘safety.’
Same script, different decade.
When governments demand backdoors into your chats, freedom dies quietly.
Welcome to 1984, EU edition.

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites.

🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in von der Leyen's statements.

Today von der Leyen said:

"This is not about whether children can access social media, it is about whether social media can access our children".

💡The first part is true. This isn't about children. It's about surveillance and combating political dissent. A state that can't control its own citizens is more dangerous than a state rife with criminals. The second part is a PR soundbite that politicians are using like a campaign slogan straight out of 1984.

🇪🇺"The question is no longer if children face risks online, but what can we do to give children a safer start online".

💡No. You can't give children a "safer start" online any more than you can offline. In the offline world, the government doesn't enforce curfews or ban children from entering liquor stores, bars or restaurants. That's a parent's responsibility. The digital world should be no different.

🇪🇺"The age verification app is one of the tools to get it done".

💡This is a contradiction because she also said "It won't be foolproof".

🇪🇺"It's easy to use, it is privacy preserving and it is open source".

💡The app was compromised as soon as it was released. "Privacy-preserving" age verification is an oxymoron. You can't verify a person's age without verifying their identity. Where or how that age is shared afterwards is irrelevant.

🇪🇺"This is basically about putting back the power into the hands of parents".

💡More from 1984. The EU is doing the opposite. Parents are having their authority stripped by politicians who think they know better. Many parents are capable and unaffected by peer pressure, and they know how to use parental controls to block any app classified as 13+. Some teens are safe, their parents trust them, and the state has no business overruling that trust.

🇪🇺"We don't give our children keys to the car before they have their licence"

💡Comparing an app to a car is a false equivalence used to justify mass surveillance. Governments don't decide when a young person is ready for car keys, guardians do.

💡Forcing every adult and child into a biometric checkpoint just to use an app or website is not licensing drivers. It's the state seizing everyone's keys, locking the garage, and forcing every driver to ask a private company for permission to take a drive.

💡 This is a gross, unethical overreach that strips authority from parents while imposing state sanctioned identity verification on every adult who doesn't even have a child.

💡Additionally, people who pass a test, obtain a licence and drive a car aren't forced to use an app to constantly authenticate their suitability to drive.

🇪🇺"We do not let them buy alcohol until they are legally allowed"

💡False equivalence. We don't force every person to show ID at a shopping mall entrance just because a few people might buy alcohol with a meal at a restaurant. Some parents are okay with their 12 year-old going to the mall with friends while others aren't. Either way, it's their choice. Whatever irresponsible decisions some parents might make, every adult in the country shouldn't be forced to pay the price.

🇪🇺"It won't be foolproof"

💡This is all the proof we need to show that the EU and every government know that banning social media for teens won't protect them. When pressed by journalists about VPNs being used to circumvent a ban, politicians always state the ban isn't a silver bullet and will take time. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan went as far as to say "we know it's not the solution".

💡Either age verification works, or it doesn't. As a technical expert in this space, I can tell you there are no additional steps to take and no progress to be made. Either the approach does what it is supposed to do, or it's not fit for purpose. If they claim a bulletproof solution is coming, it can only mean one thing. They intend to ban or restrict VPNs to people who verify their identity.

🇪🇺"It will take time to invite the cultural change that is already taking shape in our society, just as it took time to outlaw drink driving, just as it took time to use seatbelts in the cars. Great change never happens overnight, but when it comes to our safety it is always worth it".

💡Comparing a social media ban and age verification to seatbelts is a completely broken analogy. Seatbelts are a safety feature that protects children while allowing them to travel in a car. A ban doesn't give kids a seatbelt. It kicks them out of the car entirely.

💡Instead of supporting parents who want to guide their own children through the digital world, this heavy-handed law strips away parental authority by banning the apps and websites that many parents are perfectly fine with and actively monitor.

💡Furthermore, enforcing these bans requires biometric age verification, which means forcing millions of adult citizens to scan their IDs, faces or credit cards just to browse the internet. That isn't a common-sense traffic law.

💡It's a digital checkpoint on every street. True safety means teaching kids how to navigate the digital world safely with real guardrails and parental guidance, not burning down digital spaces for everyone under the guise of protection.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to ban teens from social media so every person is forced to verify their identity before they can read, share or post anything online. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous content.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to enforce "Chat Control" so every app has to monitor everything people say privately inside it, including apps with end-to-end encryption. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous criminals.

💡Where this ends

🇪🇺 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever".

George Orwell, 1984.

[Arcdeous @Arcdeous]

@MaxVillman “EU’s ChatControl wants to scan your private messages ‘for the children.’
In Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother watched everyone for ‘safety.’
Same script, different decade.
When governments demand backdoors into your chats, freedom dies quietly.
Welcome to 1984, EU edition.

[Arcdeous @Arcdeous]

@Paul__Walsh “EU’s ChatControl wants to scan your private messages ‘for the children.’
In Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother watched everyone for ‘safety.’
Same script, different decade.
When governments demand backdoors into your chats, freedom dies quietly.
Welcome to 1984, EU edition.

[Adam Goldschnitt @a_goldschnitt]

Jede Sekunde, in der sich ein Journalist oder ein Redakteur in Europa nicht gegen diese Dystopie auflehnt und mit aller ihm zur Verfügung stehenden Macht dagegen kämpft trägt aktiv zur Zeitlupe bei, in der dieser Kontinent zugrunde gerichtet wird.

[GEWOON ⚓️ MEREL @gewoonmerels]

🚨 Een nieuwe aanval van de EU op onze vrijheid! Na de slinkse trucjes rond #ChatControl wil Ursula nu het anonieme internet afschaffen.

De infrastructuur om iedereen die het niet met Ursula eens is de mond te snoeren wordt uitgerold.

Natuurlijk moet onze kinderen online veilig zijn, maar deze maatregel werkt NIET om onze kinderen te beschermen, maar schaft wel onze vrijheden af.

[Tino Strussenberg 🇩🇪 @TinoStrussoAfD]

‼️🚨Eilmeldung🚨‼️

1984 wir kommen.

EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen hat eine europaweite App zur Identitätsverifizierung für soziale Netzwerke angekündigt.

Zukünftig sollen Nutzer ihre Identität über diese App nachweisen, um sich bei sozialen Plattformen anmelden zu können.
Von der Leyen betont: „Sie ist einfach zu benutzen und schützt die Privatsphäre.“

Zudem spricht sie sich für die Einführung eines sogenannten „digitalen Führerscheins“ für Kinder aus, der Voraussetzung für den Zugang zu sozialen Netzwerken sein soll. Die App soll nach der Sommerpause vorgestellt werden.

[marc friedrich @marcfriedrich]

Orwells Dystopie 1984 wird in der EU Realität!

Erst die Chatkontrolle, DSA und jetzt:

Von der Leyen bestätigt, dass jeder in der EU eine App der EU für die Identitätsverifizierung nutzen muss, bevor er auf soziale Medien zugreifen & dort posten kann.

[Arcdeous @Arcdeous]

@nicksortor “Telescreens”

[Arcdeous @Arcdeous]

@rijswijkjan1 @volkskrant * records are continually rewritten,
* language is reshaped to narrow thought,
* contradictions become acceptable,
* people forget previous versions of events,
* and objective reality becomes secondary to the prevailing narrative.

“He who controls the past controls the future.”

[Arcdeous @Arcdeous]

@jon_delorraine Absolutely Orwellian practices!

[Arcdeous @Arcdeous]

@MariekeEhlers Orwellian “Telescreens”

[Arcdeous @Arcdeous]

@NaomiSeibt @vonderleyen Chatcontrol = Orwellian Telescreens

[Naomi Seibt @NaomiSeibt]

ALICE WEIDEL NUKES URSULA VON DER LEYEN🔥

Hey, @vonderleyen, show us your texts once you enforce Chat Control! 👋

“Total control in your chats – that's how they want to keep citizens in check, while Ursula von der Leyen DELETED her PFIZER DEALS via text messages.” - @Alice_Weidel

We must leave the EU. 🇪🇺

[Arcdeous @Arcdeous]

@GadSaad “By lack of understanding, they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything. And what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.”

- 1984, by George Orwell

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with»

— Isaac Asimov (I Asimov, 1995)

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked by a room full of Stanford students what single trait separates people who change the world from people who don't. Everyone expected him to say intelligence. Or work ethic. Or vision.

He said pain tolerance.

The room wasn't sure if he was joking. He wasn't. He explained that intelligence is common. Ambition is common. Even good ideas are relatively common. What is genuinely rare is the ability to absorb punishment day after day, year after year, and keep building anyway.

He said most people he's met who are smarter than him quit after the first real failure. Not because they weren't talented. Because the pain of failure exceeded their tolerance for it. They found something easier and redirected their intelligence there.

He said the entire history of SpaceX is just a story about absorbing explosions, literally and financially, and refusing to interpret them as signals to stop.

Nobody writes that on a motivational poster. Nobody puts "pain tolerance" on their LinkedIn profile. But it's the actual filter. Not who can dream the biggest. Who can bleed the longest.

[Arcdeous @Arcdeous]

@Rob_Roos Orwellian

The past was erased
The erasure was forgotten
The lie became truth
- George Orwell

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

Detta är ju odemokratisk.

EU parlamentet röstade NEJ till Chat Control.

Men nu tvingades alltså en ny omröstning igenom när många redan gått på semester.

Och nu röstade folkvalda politiker fortfarande NEJ.

Men nu var det inte längre en absolut majoritet så då gick det igenom.