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🇪🇺 After the UK's Online Safety Act and Australia's decision to restrict much of social media to teenagers, the European Union plans to take it a step further than the two countries and implement AI scanning tools to read the private and public groupchats of European users and look for child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
The European Union wants to adopt by October 14th a final draft of its Chat Control Act which is marketed, just like in the case of the UK's Online Safety Act and Australia's ban on teenagers from using social media apps, that it is being done to protect the children!
The European Commission's premise with this act is that all European citizens are closeted pedophiles who regularly share CSAM in their private conversations and thus everything must be verified by the state to make sure that this premise is not confirmed. Not only does the EU want to implement this AI groupchat scan tool, it wants to implement everything that the UK and Australia did like mandatory age verification upon login, social media bans for teens etc.
End-to-end encryption apps in the EU would stop working as a result of the tech company not complying with this regulation or would be broken entirely upon compliance.
Unlike the UK and Australia, the EU wants social media companies to have AI scan tools not only detect CSAM but also automatically report it to the police. Hashing tools which are already in use by law enforcement and most tech companies to identify potential CSAM give way too many false positives, to the proportion of 1/5 hashed messages. The EU also wants internet providers to block certain URLs from outside the EU upon request from national authorities.
Currently there's no consensus among EU countries on how far this bill should go, with some concessions being made that users can refuse to have their conversations scanned but will then lose the ability to upload pictures, videos or audio files and also won't be able to receive any. Consensus on the matter is being expected to be reached by October 14th and by the end of 2025, a final draft should be ready.
The governments of Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Luxembourg and Romania haven't decided if they support this bill or not. Only Austria, Poland and The Netherlands oppose this bill.
🇨🇴✔️🇺🇸 — 🇻🇪 The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, officially acknowledges that the United States bombed an ELN factory in Maracaibo, Venezuela, and contradicts Nicolás Maduro, who denies that this happened:
“It turns out that many boats attacked with missiles, as is happening in the seizures we carry out in Colombia or, with our help, outside Colombia, were not carrying cocaine but cannabis.
A paradoxical problem: in the U.S., in many places it is legal. And the Colombian Congress should not have allowed its illegality; it was lost by one vote. That vote has taken the lives of many humble boatmen, and not of a single U.S. consumer or consumer anywhere in the world. Trump is completely wrong. Cocaine to Europe is moving by submarine and container. Cannabis is what is being illegitimately attacked.
The ELN in Catatumbo, and the 33rd Front, must decide whether they are going to compete for cocaine or for Peace. Only about 5% of the cocaine produced in Colombia passes through ...
Farmer Girl:
It is very early. The kind of early where grief still hasn’t had its coffee and hope is absolutely not scheduled yet. The women go to the tomb carrying spices because when someone you love dies, you do the next right thing. You don’t expect miracles. You expect maintenance. You expect a body. You expect final.
They do not get final.
The stone is rolled away. The tomb is empty. And somewhere nearby, a group of guards is having the worst workday review in Roman history. Imagine being paid to guard death itself and then having to explain to your supervisor that, yes sir, the grave escaped. One minute you’re standing there with a spear, the next minute an angel shows up like lightning, the ground shakes, and you wake up realizing the thing you were guarding walked out. Career change imminent.
Two angels tell the women, "Why are you looking for the living among the dead". Which feels gentle until you realize it’s also Heaven saying, you’re shopping in the wrong aisle. He told you this. You ...
