Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the
European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the alarm. Using a “deceptive sleight of
hand,” a mandatory and expanded Chat Control is being pushed through the back door, in a
form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan. The legislative package could
be greenlit tomorrow in a closed-door EU working group session.
Personal Opinion
Once again, supranational institutions are attempting to introduce regulations that
simultaneously function as instruments of mass surveillance and censorship. The language of
“safety” and “risk mitigation” dare to speak of neutrality, but beneath lies a pathological
obsession with control. They are effectively framing families and communities as incapable of
managing their own destiny. These measures strip people of agency and present them as subjects
of the state. What is presented as protection is, in fact, a compulsion to dominate private
life under the guise of regulation.
