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Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by diego_sandoval on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:29PM (#40711877)
I think it would be feasible for Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal to form a coalition that pledges to withdraw from any country or market that tries to pull these shenanigans, such that the sum of them is big enough to play that game.

The hardest to convince would be Whatsapp, but I think that Zuckerberg is one of the few big tech CEOs that still has principles, at least sometimes. I think it could happen.

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Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by kelnos on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:36PM (#40711943)
> I think that Zuckerberg is one of the few big tech CEOs that still has principles

"Still"? I'm not aware of a time when he's publicly shown any sort of principles.

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Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by diego_sandoval on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:50PM (#40712077)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36187028

Google or Microsoft would just give up data of their users at the first request to avoid a ban.

Sure, Meta can't * do it because of E2E, but that alone is much better than what Google does.

* without pushing a malicious update.

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Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by londons_explore on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @04:02AM (#40715223)
> * without pushing a malicious update.

And I believe that is exactly what the court was demanding they do. Push an update to uncloak the users that the court determines should lose their privacy.

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