There will be another vote on Chat Control because the initial result was not accepted.
This violates fundamental democratic principles, and Mass Surveillance is harmful.
What actual innovation looks like: https://t.co/y2cE7aN6E6 — military grade private messaging that doesn’t read your messages, private file sharing and more.
I get where you’re coming from, but I think the disconnect is that people aren’t reacting to a few isolated policy mistakes. They’re reacting to a long-term trajectory.
For many of us the EU’s pattern is consistent: more surveillance, more control, more bureaucracy, and almost no understanding of what technological freedom requires. GDPR didn’t improve privacy in any meaningful way, it just buried the web in consent spam. And now Chat Control goes even further: mass client-side scanning, effectively mandating backdoors into private communication. That’s not “imperfect policy,” that’s a direct assault on the idea that citizens are allowed any digital space the state cannot inspect.
You don’t need imagery of “Rome falling” to see the problem. You just need to read the actual proposals.
The pushback isn’t coordinated, and it’s not hate. It’s builders realizing that if they don’t speak up, an entire continent sleepwalks into a surveillance architecture that doesn’t get rolled back.
The constructive response isn’t doomposting and it’s not silence. It’s building systems where privacy and speech don’t depend on political moods in the first place. That’s why projects like zkChat exist: private communication that can’t be scanned, scraped, or intercepted - not by platforms, not by governments, not by “safety layers,” not by anyone.
If we don’t want backlash cycles, we need infrastructure where rights aren’t privileges granted by institutions, but guarantees enforced by code. The EU may not like that trajectory, but it’s the only realistic safeguard we have left.