Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has "backed away" from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillance. Patrick Breyer, digital freedom fighter and expert on the file, warns journal
Listen, guys. The oligarchy urgently needs to implement a totalitarian fascist dictatorship before automation renders billions of people unemployable.
You understand, right? They need to surveil everyone 24/7, otherwise the 99% might successfully organise a revolt and redistribute the collective output of human civilisation before we achieve GAI, or have produced armies of killbots capable of genociding the masses who are incapable of providing any value to capitalism.
There really isn’t any alternative. It’s their god given right to own all matter, space, and time in the universe, and — most unfortunately — you can’t exist without consuming or occupying an infinitesimally small microcosm of it.