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Re:ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even ... by dmitrygr on Thursday September 25, 2025 @01:02PM (#45375533)
> you are talking to a european audience, they tend to be in favor of gun control so they don't care about erosion of those rights

You have accidentally properly identified the european problem and precisely the reason that chat control will pass: shortsightedness. If people only rise up to protect rights "they need", soon no rights will be left.

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Re:ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even ... by 1718627440 on Thursday September 25, 2025 @03:05PM (#45377395)
In the EU you can have guns, you just must pass some tests, that you know how to use them and you need to store them in separate ways.

But guns are vastly insufficient in this century to overthrow the state, you basically only harm your fellow citizens with them.

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