The proposed EU law Chat Control will not only create a centralized mass surveillance system and violate people's privacy. It will also ban open source operating systems as an unintended consequence.
If and when this law goes into effect it would make illegal the open source software services underpinning the majority of services and infrastructure on the internet.
Learn more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/2023/2/1/eu-chat-control-law-will-ban-open-source-operating-systems/
@mullvadnet Worth noting what the excuse is
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A2022%3A209%3AFIN&qid=1652451192472
As I've said for a long time, child pornography, age of consent, and hate-speech laws are the cornerstone of anti-freedom legislation
