@Em0nM4stodon As @pluralistic elucidates regarding the many causes of ecology becoming recognized as one cause with the development of the concept of ecology, and regarding so many technology-mediated social injustices and all the facets of #enshittification ultimately having a single root, the solution to cause fatigue is to unify causes.

Whether #chatControl and the assault on #privacy, or #RightToRepair, or #censorship, or any of the many forms of bigotry, ultimately, the unifying cause is to reverse the centralization of power—to redistribute power towards the many: not as power over others, which is the same shit in a different direction, but as power over ourselves. (Distribution of wealth is contained within this, for what is money but, as Beau and #BelleOfTheRanch call it: power coupons.)

Information about you is power over you, and chat control is therefore the unilateral taking of our power to have private lives by leaders of government who themselves have their secrets protected by force of law.

Ultimately, the unifying cause is the antitheses to Wilhoit's law: There must be no group that the law binds but does not protect, and no group that the law protects but does not bind. Anything opposing this cause, including chat control, is just another means to regress towards the original and defining objective of the right: absolute monarchy.

@Em0nM4stodon What will they do to anyone who doesn't comply? How can they even enforce it?

And please stop thinking you will be able to stay protected, so it doesn't matter.

First, this isn't just about you. Millions of people would still be impacted, including people close to you.

Second, if we do nothing to stop it, you will just end up alone on your now deemed illegal self-hosted Matrix server. And there will be plenty of personal information shared about you by others using the "legal channels" under constant state surveillance.

Being alone using some magical secret tool will not save you. Legality does matter for adoption by the public, and privacy is a communal responsibility. We are in this together, whether you want it or not.

Helping others helps you too.

#ChatControl