- cross-posted to:
- linux@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- linux@lemmy.ml
!!! IF YOU ARE AN EU CITIZEN, PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING FORM !!!
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool
Be especially sure to select your home country’s permanent representation in the Committee, but selecting everyone the website proposes is a very good idea (and done by default).
Raise your voices and flood their inbox, this might be the last chance we ever get


This would basically shory-circuit the EU’s open source strategy which is a cornerstone for efforts to reach some amount of digital sovereignty. It is especially incompatible with using Linux as a end-user or developer - taken at the letter, it would make Linux devices illegal because they are controlled by the user. It would also undermine security and confidentiality of any digital communication, and would have bad effects for digital economic communications in any business settings:
To sum up, apart from being destructive to civil rights, this would have massive negative consequences, because the goals are completely incompatible with other important goals.