Die EU-Chat-Kontrolle kommt – durch die Hintertür der freiwilligen Teilnahme

May I add, In the article, it is stated that Germany voted for Chat control on November 19th. The reason why it didn’t pass was because Spain, amongst other countries, was against voluntary scanning. In other words, Germany is no longer blocking Chat control.

That’s honestly a really great way to get me to become anti-EU. Fuck all of the countries who voted for this. Fuck the EU.

Reminder that these are the organizations pushing For Chat Control:

> Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P), the International Justice Mission (IJM), ECPAT, the Children’s Rights Network, World Vision, Terre des Hommes, Innocence in Danger, the World Childhood Foundation, the Stiftung digitale Chancen, the Children’s Rights Network Germany, SafeToNet Foundation, Thorn, Ecpat network, the Brave organization, the PR agency Purpose, Justice Initiative, Oak Foundation, Eurochild, Missing Children Europe, Hopewell Fund, Heat Initiative, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation

Many of these groups receive funding to lobby for Chat Control from the Hopewell Fund, Oak Foundation, and Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). The British billionaire Alan M. Parker controls the Oak Foundation, and British billionaire Christopher Hohn controls the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. The Hopewell Fund is controlled by Arabella Advisors, and they work hard to conceal the sources of their dark money.

Sources for the organizations:

* https://netzpolitik.org/2022/dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-hollywood-star-lobbies-the-eu-for-more-surveillance/

* https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/

* https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/09/26/the-eu-fight-against-child-pornography-stokes-fears-of-widespread-online-surveillance_6140055_8.html

* https://theintercept.com/2023/10/01/apple-encryption-iphone-heat-initiative/

* https://www.politico.eu/article/one-man-spam-campaign-ravages-eu-chat-control-bill-fight-chat-control/

* https://www.heise.de/en/background/Missing-Link-Prevention-at-the-Source-Chat-Control-and-Upload-Filters-10963771.html

As for mandatory age verification, I think the UK government’s Ofcom (Melanie Dawes) and Australia’s eSafety Commissioner (Julie Inman Grant) are major players alongside groups like the Age Verification Providers Association (lobbyist organization).

* https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-agrees-advance-child-safety-online-australias-esafety-commissioner-and-uks-ofcom

Take a moment to tell your government officials that Chat Control and mandatory age verification are unacceptable: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

> EU chat control is coming – through the back door of voluntary participation

And Germany already welcomed it.

Germany is always awful when it comes to information technology topics.