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Honest to god, EU regulators feel like the last bastion of sanity left.
Until they ban encryption...
Well the parties in question are trying this for almost a decade. Mostly the "conservative" party from Germany wants total surveillance. In my eyes they are more right than Conservative
Germany is one of the countries against the current chat surveillance proposal, so at least we have that going for us (which is nice)
I'm not sure what is chat surveillance protocol but whatever would be the result any benifits will probably only apply to EU citizens. I recently heard of how Russia's biggest XMPP server was MitM'ed, it was hosted in Hetzner
It feels like everyone wants to eavesdrop on everyone else, preferably, or at least on everyone who's not proteted by the local law. Still the US is a worse case of the spying on everything alive, I guess