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Re:Let yourself be monitored: EU governments to agree on Cha... by NoMoreNicksLeft on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @05:38PM (#40517327)
You lesser people. Government officials and agents will need chat systems that are exempt, so they can officiate and agentize. Surely that's plain to see? Don't worry, they've promised not to use it to groom kids or anything.

In all seriousness, what prevents this from just being ignored and people using open source software? Is it that the EU will prohibit open source chat from being sold on the various app stores?

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Re:Let yourself be monitored: EU governments to agree on Cha... by pseudalopex on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @06:36PM (#40517891)
> In all seriousness, what prevents this from just being ignored and people using open source software? Is it that the EU will prohibit open source chat from being sold on the various app stores?

The European Commission proposal said providers of software application stores should be made subject to obligations to take certain reasonable measures.[1] It seems likely removing non compliant apps would be considered reasonable.

Commercial open source apps would be more likely to comply with the requirements than non commercial closed source apps I think.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

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Re:Let yourself be monitored: EU governments to agree on Cha... by betaby on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @06:34PM (#40517868)
People won't use free software. Proprietary software is enforce by (self)regulation. I.e. you can't use banking apps of rooted android. Some banks won't allow Linux Firefox and so on.
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