🚨 Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans

The EU Council wants all your messages to be read by ominous AI. But government and military accounts will be exempt. Why? For security.

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:loudspeaker: Act now! We’ve got two months to stop Chat Control: Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans. | Tuta

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Thank you for sharing!

The article is very helpful, but the main action is to call your MEPs if you live in the EU, and spread the word for others to call as well. As far as I can tell, this is the simplest but most direct thing you can do. You should call whether you’re in a country that support Chat Control or not. Now is the time for you to fight!

Thank you, Tuta, for sharing this MEP contact tool! Let’s use it to call your elected representatives!

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Yes, please call your representatives! Everyone needs to get active now.

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Thanks - this needs more attention.

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What if your country is one if those who already said no to the law?
Can we just rest in it or are there things we could do?

You can call to thank your reps for standing up for your privacy as their constituent, you can call regularly to emphasize that they need to convince their counterparts who disagree, you can work to convince others in your country or may in other countries to also call and fight back.

It may seem like a lot, but even just one thank you call will send the signal that people are paying attention and that reps who defend privacy will get credit for it from their constituents.

I did send an email to the MEPs but I have not gotten a reply, I encouraged one of my friends after realizing but he did not make a move, and idk who else would be fit for it so I wish the best for the rest of the countries and they go to the opposing side.

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Politicians are, unfortunately, spammed by thousands of letters by gods-know-who (sometimes daily) on various issues I hear from multiple sources on the internet (and its a bad thing in my opinion as they cannot answer this way - there should be more formal (and organized, and modern) procedure to contact a politician, as I think citizens should be able to.

I guess https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ allows to spam a politician’s inbox by clicking that red button, which is not ok. Too easy.

But here it seems one Croatian politician have mass-answered back about chat control: Reddit - The heart of the internet

Also made public statements, talked to his colleagues and contacted prime minister asking to reverse country’s decision. Success! An example it matters.

I was wrong. I tested it out. Clicking red button opens mailing application, and one can customize mail and send from their own mail. Which is a lot better :blush:

So Croatian MEP in that example got 1500 mail about chat control, MEP from Germany would get more as more citizens.

Not exactly accurate either. The highest number I heard was 800 letters per day which was before chat control campaign :blush:

I don’t know how it is in other countries, but in the US the offices of the politicians have to organize all of the feedback to then share with the representative. For example, if I call my rep’s office to say that KOSA is bad, they have write that down and aggregate it with anyone else who called with an opinion on KOSA to keep the rep informed.

When politicians’ offices are getting “spammed,” what they’re hearing is a collective message to act one way or another on an issue. That’s the part they act on.

My expectation is not that I will get on the phone with my rep. It’s closer to voting where I just need the recipient of my call to log my opinion so that it can be tallied with others who called about the same thing.

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