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+title = "Implications of Chat Control for Activism"
+summary = "The implications of the proposed chat control for activists."
+date = "2025-09-09"
+tags = ["activism", "opsec", "privacy", "chat control", "signal", "matrix"]
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+## Introduction
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+Chat Control is a not so new proposal by the EU Commission. It was prevented a couple years ago, but now is on the table again. This is really bad.  
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+Chat Control wants to use AI, to classify unwanted material. The justification for this is to stop the spread of CSAM. However, it only a matter of time, that this law will be used to also classify "extremist content", which is a translation for all opinions that question the capitalist hegemony of the European Union. If you want to know more about this, here is a [really good article about the newly proposed chat control](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/). I hope we all know that this is not about preventing CSAM. If anyone questions this, there should be a central database storing CSAM to train the ai, which is bad and dangerous on **EVERY FUCKING LEVEL**.
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+In short, the European Union wants to read all your chats, including those you use for organizing.
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+## The problem for Organizations
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+Many organizations use [Signal](https://signal.org/) for organizing. While it might have been the only sane option, that was [a bad idea from the get go](https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html). Unfortunately Chat Control makes it so much worse.
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+To find a possible solution, we need to dissect what chatrooms are usually used for in organizations.