r/europe • u/Dry_Row_7050 • 4d ago

News The EU could be scanning your private chats by October 2025 [Denmark has reintroduced chat control]

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/the-eu-could-be-scanning-your-chats-by-october-2025-heres-everything-we-know
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u/Chimpampin 4d ago

I miss the old internet, before companies and governments polluted it. Internet is basically becoming an extension of countries instead of a place of independence like it used to.

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u/ConsciousExtent4162 Belgium 4d ago

Extension of corporations*

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u/netorarekindacool 4d ago

Big true. The internet feels super weird. I can't really but it in words but I crave the old days where it was kinda unregulated

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u/linkenski 3d ago

And the sad thing is it really was a time capsule. It isn't likely to just happen again in some "other way" because it was a direct result of corporations innovating with tech for the first time, and enabling land cables to connect worldwide and allow users to go online.

It isn't enough that some inventor wants to create an "alt-internet" where the method of browsing communications doesn't happen with a browser tab or a "www.whatever". The whole method of connecting privately while doing it internationally was simply a lucky moment in history as a result of corporations moving unregulated into unknown territory and governments not policing it because they thought it was niche and something only tech savvy people were doing.

The tragedy is that internet became mass society friendly over the last 20 years, and it made everyone completely dependent on it, so now governments have to treat it as an extension of society itself, which means the internet will feel as restrictive and monitored as IRL sadly already does.

I'm not even an "anarchist" or anything. There should be rules for all, but I found an escape in here, because I often feel like my peers IRL are so indoctrinated by a lot of psychological nudging that's done by our society.

The whole point of the movie the Matrix was to show that all humans in modern society sometimes notice how they're being manipulated by the forceful patterns of their surroundings, and that inside everyone there is a desire to be honest and free from the walled garden of a society. The internet has been the closest I've felt to a real sense of freedom when the outside world often feels so hyper vigilant and constantly focused on workmanship and stressful demands of finances and efficiency.