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Comment on EU "Chat Control" and Mandatory Client Side Scanning

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This law or proposal is so fundamentally absurd, instead of the EU or member states coming up with a proposal like Frontex but for hosting a centralized CSAM + other horrible potentially illegal images/links/videos hash/identifiers, where anyone with a website can pay lets say 20€ a month to access the API to scan images/links/videos instead it has to be the most dumbest "private market will regulate it" which effectively means, everything and anyone has to be scanned.

How is this "private market will regulate it" when this is enforced by EU?

“Private market will regulate it” in this context doesn’t mean “no rules, they will sort it out on their own”, but “we don’t care and don’t know how they will comply with that law, and we won’t assist them in any way either, they will figure it out on their own.”

Then it is a wrong use of terms.

This is more about paying attention to the context in which the phrase was said. A lot of things get confusing or might mean a total opposite of what you think they do, when the relevant context isn’t taken into the account.

“Private market will regulate itself” isn’t some technical term with a precise meaning that can be misused. It can “regulate itself” by not having any restrictions imposed on it, but i can also be said to “regulate itself” by exploring different solutions to challenges presented by legal requirements with no clear solution path.

However, I see your point here, because most of the time when people just say “private market will regulate itself”, they talk about heavily unregulated market situations.

Thanks for your time, agreed.

How else can you sponsor you nephew cyber security company.... Or get some nice job/deals once they rotate you out of Brussels.

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