Look around on Lemmy. People are saying that the EU needs to enforce its law against Big Tech. It must protect its citizens. It's about "our values". Blah blah blah...

When that happens, you immediately get age verification. Germany had a social media service called StudiVZ. It was forced to segregate minors to a separate service. American social media not doing that is an example of them not following our laws and our values (not mine, not sure whose).

These big corpos make big money by enabling pedos to groom children. We need to hold them accountable and force them to stop that! Does that make sense? Well, now you have to make Big Tech read private messages to search for suspicious activity. There's your chat control.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What exactly do you think a Commission blueprint is?

It's nothing but soft power and hardly even that, little more than just thinking out loud. It has no implications whatsoever unless member states decide they want to implement the ideas nationally, in which case it's on them. The Commission cannot implement EU law unilaterally.

As for chat contol, that's about banning true encryption. Very different from regulating big tech.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Sure. And that is why I think chat control will happen.