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Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now

(threema.ch)
960 points andrew918277 | 2 comments | 18 Jun 24 08:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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drdebug ◴[18 Jun 24 10:06 UTC] No.40715885[source]▶
The wording in the current draft seems to indicate that it applies to "providers of hosting services and providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services". So unless this includes ISPs, I wonder if that means a decentralized P2P service is not covered.
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1. jcul ◴[19 Jun 24 09:55 UTC] No.40726667[source]▶
I also wonder how it applies to Matrix, which is encrypted and technically decentralized.

However most users will be using the matrix.org homeserver, which makes it effectively centralized. Though I can still create my own homeserver that talks to matrix.org.

Would matrix.org be forced to offer scanning / a backdoor on the homeserver? Or would they be forced to add something to the official apps, which is pretty ineffective as there are many client apps.

All in all this proposal seems like a complete mess.

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2. tekknik ◴[19 Jun 24 13:54 UTC] No.40728328[source]▶
Reading the text, they will require the operators of the server to provide the filtering and would be liable if they didn’t.