Germany simply wants to be the pioneer in surveillance and would prefer to leave even China behind (there are already future plans for an alternative to the Chinese social credit system). So I was all the more surprised that a no to chat control came or is coming from Germany. But surveillance and censorship are getting worse and worse at the same time as people want to make money from the public’s personal data… We also sovereignly screwed up the EU cloud with lobbying that it is only operated by American companies.
Well, DNS blocks can be bypassed pretty quickly, but you can already see where it’s all going to end.