Sounds like a bad joke joke but the EU governing council wants to once again legislate #chatcontrol for it's 350 million citizens. According to @echo_pbreyer (EU parlamentarian) the legislation wants to force messengers to prevent users from sending images or videos unless they agree them to be scanned, AI-analyzed and potentially reported to police. They apparently want to bring it up for a council vote in two days and get it through parliament in June. German link https://www.patrick-breyer.de/lass-dich-ueberwachen-eu-rat-will-sich-auf-chatkontrolle-mit-zustimmung-der-nutzer-einigen/
@delta@delegatevoid@echo_pbreyer begs the question what happens if I have a messenger that just sends media as text messages, base64 encoded, and a client (plugin?) that detects those and decodes them back to visible media. Does that count as text then, which doesn't need to be analyzed?
