One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill

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

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boogiebored@lemmy.world · 116 pts · 317d (8 replies)

is giving a massive headache to those trying to pass a European bill aimed at stopping child sexual abuse material from spreading online.

Hot garbage lies

Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 57 pts · 317d (5 replies)
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pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 42 pts · 317d (4 replies)

Politico is owned by Germany's largest right leaning yellow press publisher Axel Springer. They love to push Anti-Green, ultra conservative agendas

s38b35M5@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 316d (1 reply)

And Mathias Döpfner is himself an out of touch billionaire-class nut who applauds the tamping of freedoms (including of the press) and jumps at every chance to breathe life into lies that advance his oligarchic wet dreams. The kind of person who says horrible things, then lies about saying them, and when confronted with the receipts, pretends he was just being "edgy" or "provocative" to provoke the plebs.

News organizations that exist to accurately report the news and properly inform the public are the exception now, I'm afraid. The rest have an agenda, and it never involves the common good.

boogiebored@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 316d

Common tactic for the elite media controlling class like Trump, Musk, etc.

kablez@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 316d
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eldavi@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 316d

i've always wondered who could be a euro version of roger ailes or rupert murdoch...

I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 316d

I see two lies.

First, obviously the bill is not about stopping CSAM.

The second, in no way is this a massive headache to anyone. You guys know email filters are a thing right?

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 316d

The same guys relentlessly defending the child mass murders in Gaza, here cosplay as being against child sexual abuse.

The irony is so massive that I'm surprised a black hole didn't form at Politico's main office in Germany.

QuazarOmega@lemy.lol · 39 pts · 317d

Unfathomably based

chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 316d (3 replies)

The site lets visitors compile a mass email warning about the bill and send it to national government officials, members of the European Parliament and others with ease

Why are they talking about this as if it's a strange thing to happen and disruptive? I've seen lots of websites about a political issue that help people send emails to their representatives, isn't that just a normal part of democracy?

drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 316d

Normal part of democracy sighted GUNSHOTS

I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 316d

Government officials: right clicks email and sets up a filter to automatically move them to a separate folder, or just delete them

neutronst4r@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 316d

It is normal, and also irrelevant. Representatives don't read their (public) E-Mails.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 33 pts · 317d (4 replies)

The campaign has irked some recipients. “In terms of dialog within a democracy, this is not a dialog,” said Lena Düpont, a German member of the European People’s Party group and its home affairs spokesperson, of the mass emails.

Then open your eyes and ears and pay attention. If you did, then people wouldnt be forced to send you these emails. Germany is still "undecided" on this issue and we could basically single-handedly decide the outcome. If Germany votes against then it wont pass.

SrMono@feddit.org · 8 pts · 316d (3 replies)

For crying out loud.. she is right. After she/they didn't initiated the much needed dialog (for the xth. time), this was a protest note, sent by those they were talking about, but not listening to. Still a very democratic process.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 316d (2 replies)

At no point did i say that this is a dialog. Im just say she shouldnt be mad at the people emailing, but at her government.

SrMono@feddit.org · 5 pts · 316d (1 reply)

The quote says: "this is not a dialog". I'm arguing against Düpont as they failed to initiate a dialog the several times they tried to pass the exact same regulation.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 316d

Ah silly me. I just woke up... Thanks for making me read your comment again with my brain turned on.

silasmariner@programming.dev · 26 pts · 316d (2 replies)

A website set up by an unknown Dane

The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer living in Aalborg, Denmark.

Does anyone fucking proof-read anything any more? Or does unknown just mean 'not famous' these days? FML.

OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 316d

A Dane with under a million followers, so a nobody really.

umbrella@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 316d
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sexy_peach@feddit.org · 21 pts · 317d

modern day hero

they should open snail mail to check it for CSAM I don't care

Corridor8031@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 316d
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padlock4995@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 316d

Uk needs this for Britcard BS

ziproot@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 314d

Waow