This is from 2021, why post this now…?

I use this https://f-droid.org/packages/com.ghostsq.commander

Obviously the way the previous commenter worded it would infringe on the platforms’ free speech, it’s only workable if we replace “harmful” with “illegal” (e.g. libelous).

The law will be the same in all EU countries, including whichever parts you think will be “not mandatory” (I did read those news articles and am fully aware that mandatory scanning is no longer on the table).

misleading headline, this isn’t a list of countries in which the law will (if it passes) be different (it won’t be, it’s an EU law, so will be the same in all EU countries), it’s a list of countries that currently support/oppose the law

likely not either (much) better or worse than any other place where you store your files unencrypted on someone else’s computer?

Not sure what exactly you’re asking.

Reforming the GDPR is in principle a good idea because many of the terms used in it are so vague that it’s completely unclear what it does or doesn’t mean.

Somehow I suspect that improving this isn’t what’s going to happen…

The idea is that privacy laws in the EU arguably normally make it illegal for messaging providers to even voluntarily scan messages for illegal activity (including child pornography). What’s being proposed is an exemption to that so that they can scan voluntarily.

That is no longer in the realm of governments trying to oppress us, we are now talking about business regulation. It would not prohibit anyone from running their own messaging server or running any software on their own device.

In any case, the IPA above doesn’t seem “unpronounceable” at all to me as a native speaker of German and fluent speaker of English. The pronunciation isn’t intuitive from the spelling, that is quite a different thing from being unpronounceable.

I don’t use one except for work (to connect to corporate networks).

A VPN mostly changes which entity you have to trust (from your ISP to your VPN provider). I don’t have a reason to distrust my ISP any more than any VPN provider. I don’t have any need to regularly get around any geoblocking.

When I do privacy-sensitive things, I use Tor, which is actually effective at hiding who I am and what I am doing.

Do you have a link to a source for this?

to be clear, I obviously think the campaign against chat control is a very good and very necessary thing; I shared the article because I found the campaign methods interesting and also wanted to draw more attention to what’s going on, not because I agree with all of its framing (although I understood the “spam” in the headline to be tongue-in-cheek, maybe not everyone did though?).

which is not end-to-end encrypted either

I remember reading a post somewhere on the threadiverse that contained a list of all websites one AI crawler was using for training, there were several Lemmy instances on it. It would even be possible to set up an instance only to crawl it.

You might want to post something publicly, but conceal who you are. Tor can help with that.

Much of AI training happens on the entire public web, including here.

Why was it previously allowed, one may ask.