I feel like no one is really talking about how dire this situation is, people just found it amusing. It's largely underreported, most of world news articles are talking about random s***.

To make it clear, it's likely if you live in Europe and more specifically live in the UK, your privacy will become compromised and your security will be nonexistent.

1. Chat Control– Originally introduced in 2022, this proposal would require governments to scan private messages for illegal content, effectively eliminating the confidentiality of personal communications. Europol wants to have unlimited access to the data.. Interestingly this regulation will not apply to politicians, police and intelligence agencies so we won’t be seeing Ursula’s deleted texts any time soon.

2. ProtectEU – Introduced in 2025 and planned by unknown lobbyists, this initiative is made of multiple individual laws and would compel electronic communication providers to log extensive user data, including identity, contacts, online behavior, and interests. It would also ban the use of non-logging VPNs, force all devices sold in the EU to come with backdoor access for police, ban and sanction messaging apps that don’t comply, and mandate surveillance infrastructure. The mandatory data retention part is currently in its public consultation phase, please give them feedback

3. United Nations Cybercrime Treaty Introduced in 2017 by Russia, adopted by UN in 2024 and will be signed by the EU commission on behalf of EU states in October 2025. It obliges countries to surveil their citizens and share personal data at the request of foreign governments for so-called “serious crimes” (defined as offenses punishable by four years or more in prison). Once ratified, European companies could be legally required to spy on individuals, including dissidents from countries like China or Russia, if requested by those governments. EU hopes 3rd countries would in turn provide information on Europeans. It took a while for EU to find common ground with Russia and North Korea and it was mass surveillance.

4. Digital Services Act that will introduce age verification in the internet, same kind of law that went into force in the UK recently. It has passed already, but worth mentioning.

They hold this against you because if you take a stand, you're against children's safety on the internet, and are potentially supporting terrorists. Be educated and take steps to guarantee your freedom of expression. Soon, this stuff may come towards the US.

UK is beyond cooked

Man we all cooked

World is just deep fried and burnt atp

europe

Europeans will still act like they live in a post racial technocratic utopia and feel very smug about how they’re sooo much different than the US and Russia

It's f***ed. Labour's Peter Kyle stated that Jimmy Saville would do his abuse online, and insisted that Nigel Farage and Reform would argue that by appealing this bill, they support Jimmy Saville. Literally giving even more fascist people free reign to play victim

I think everyone is under the sudden realisation they can't make fun of Russia or China for spying on their people anymore lol

these lobbyists will be interested in the US next mane

they better not set foot in moose jaw saskatchewan

lol no

this s*** is already here is the US fam s/o palantir and peter thiel

It’s techno feudalism all the way down. At least the EU and China do a better job of regulating or co-opting their power rather than letting them run wild and giving them state financing without nationalizing them (looking at you, palantir).

do you really think the US, regardless of their party won't pass a "protect the children bill" everyone is doing. they literally had a deal with the EU while the EU had no leverage, at least Canada does

Peter Thiel is the closest thing this earth has to the antichrist.

Palantir probably has a contract to spy on citizens in the EU and US prolly too.

I was just talking about this with a friend the other day

If you listen to Peter speak, he wants individualism, decentralisation, and takes ideas from anarcho capitalism and cameralism, he wants a world with no privacy. His view is like a perverted and twisted kind of Ayn Rand story, one filled with rational egoism.

He wants more borders, more countries, more class disparity, the elites to live in a specific land while the masses suffer. His mind is broken, and this train of thought is probably spreading to his colleagues, I mean he's a close friend of Vance and that's arguably his apprentice. He also thinks women shouldn't have the right of suffrage.

Plus has nutty quotes like these:

In an essay for the Cato Institute, Thiel once wrote, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible…” Why? Because if you empower the demos, they will eventually vote for restrictions on the power of capitalists. and therefore, restrictions on their “freedom.” He continues, “Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy‘ into an oxymoron.”

we really might head back to feudalism/manorialism (techno version, as you said) at this rate, but that's a topic for another time lmfao, it's mystifying

hopefully eu bredrin can petition their govts. at least yall have even remote power in that aspect unlike the rest of us

i thought they were already doing that ngl

Naw, it’s recent

"this initiative is made of multiple individual laws and would compel electronic communication providers to log extensive user data, including identity, contacts, online behavior, and interests"
will they log my goon sessions on fugtrup 3d renders ?

Most likely

should i google what you talking about or should i protect my innocent eyes?

he just does 3d pinup nothing too crazy