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melaviola profile picture
Chat control will eventually pass because it’s NOT about child protection. It’s about institutional expansion masquerading as security policy. Europol stands to triple his staff and massively expand his power. An entire EU Centre will be created with ongoing funding.

Once these institutions are built, once the infrastructure exists and the budget is allocated, scaling back becomes politically impossible. We’ve seen this pattern before. The Patriot Act. And the question will be: “what else can we do with it?”

This is how mission creep works: build the infrastructure for one purpose, then discover - conveniently - that it can serve many others. Today’s is CSAM. Tomorrow it’s “extremist” content monitoring.

This is securitocracy in action.
melaviola profile picture
A heartbreaking injustice.
Keonne Rodriguez has been sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined $250,000 for creating Samourai Wallet.
The judge called privacy “anti-social,” ignoring the real threats faced by ordinary people.
Those with courage pay for the indifference of those who refuse to see how brutal this war will be.
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DJH · 15w
wrong incentives protect the current status quo at massive social cost. we should not expect real change to evolve from within the system
UNCLE ROCKSTAR · 17w
The pleasure is mine 💪
melaviola profile picture
Julius Caesar figured this out in 50 BC with a stick and some scratches. We are working on quantum computers and we’re still explaining why backdoors don’t discriminate between good and bad guys.

Have a great Global Encryption Day! 🙃

This is not a policy debate. It’s collective amnesia.

October 21, 2025
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melaviola profile picture
Yes, Signal uses AWS. Yes, that’s ironic. But end-2-end encryption still protects your content. The real vulnerability? Metadata, especially for targeted by state surveillance (journalists and activists in hostile environments).

That’s why proposal like Chat Control are so dangerous: they target the only thing that actually works when infrastructure can’t be trusted.
melaviola · 18w
Encryption isn't a luxury. It's the last line of defense between your private life and total surveillance. Once it's gone, we won't get it back. Europe can still choose differently. But the window is closing.
melaviola · 18w
THE PLAYBOOK IS CLEAR: 1Introduce legislation as "child protection" 2Ignore technical experts who say it's dangerous and unworkable 3Use emotional arguments to bypass rational debate 4Vote during crisis moments or procedural windows 5 Implement gradually to avoid mass backlash
melaviola · 18w
🇺🇸 EARN IT ACT strips legal protection from encrypted platforms and forces messages scanning. Repeatedly reintroduced despite massive opposition.