realitaetsverlust

As a parent, I have limited influence

Nonsense. If there is one person that has all the influence, it’s you as a parent.

confiscate their smartphones & ground them

Idk why parents think punishing their child is the only thing that works lmaooo.

How about you learn what your child is doing online and talk about it if it does something it shouldn’t do. Set up a local DNS (like PiHole) and every evening, check what your child is doing. If it accesses sites it shouldn’t access, talk about it. There’s also plenty of software out there that lets you monitor your childs phone usage. Kid is 12 hours a day on tiktok? Install TimeLimit, restrict the time. Done.

You made the decision you have a child - now take the responsibility and stop relying on the government or companies to educate your children.

Not only US Big Tech, but Big Tech in general. More selfhosting, more open source - less proprietary bullshit with vendor lock-in.

He’s hating them because they won’t just freely let his tech bros do what they want in here.

I can assure you, you will never need them.

I got a USB stick with ventoy installed, got a gparted and an arch linux iso on that thing, I do use those regularly.

I don’t get the point. Because their friends are on social media that absolves you from educating your kids?

Yeah why educating kids on the dangers of social media when you can restrict them …

That isn’t entirely true. While a phone without a SIM can still listen to broadcasts, it never registers as a subscriber because It’s missing a IMSI. So no, without a SIM you are indeed invisible to carriers. It’s a bit like screaming into the woods - someone might hear you if you do that, but if he doesn’t scream back, you have no idea he’s there.

The only exception to this if you’re actively calling emergency services - in that case, your phone will attempt an emergency attach to any network it can find, which is the point where the carrier of that network could see your IMEI. However, apart from that, you are indeed completely invisible without a SIM card.

Not having a SIM-Card in your phone is like having a tank without a main gun - it drives, but it can’t really do what it’s supposed to do. I don’t think that it’s a good idea. Also, not having a SIM-Card doesn’t make you invisible - only airplane mode really does that. Without some kind of network connectivity, you have an expensive, glorified brick that can make photos, play games and lets you listen to offline music.

Also, I’m wondering what exactly you’re trying to achive. Get a private OS like graphene, don’t install any google services, have anti-tracking protection installed into the browser (or use a safe and sane browser by default) and you’re good.

Not having a SIM doesn’t do anything for you except hiding from your carrier, however, if your threat model involves you being worried by being tracked by your carrier (and by extension, the feds), you’re in really hot water already and you’re probably better off with detaching yourself from the modern world.

I don’t think you understand what is being decided here. This isn’t about making legal what other countries are already doing, this is creating the framework for countries to introduce this kind of shit legally.

only voluntary … No chat app is going to voluntarily add it

To cite bender from futurama:

Hahahahahhahaha.

Oh wait, you’re serious? Let me laugh even harder.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Not sure if you’ve noticed, but “voluntary” usually results in mandatory after a while. We had this happen so often already. Remember the “Voluntary” Code of Conduct on hate speech in the EU? Yeah that started out as voluntary - then there was the DSA, digital services act, which uses the “voluntary” code of conduct as the baseline of determining if they are compliant. So the thing that started out voluntary is not effectively mandatory.

Or, in the US, there was the REAL ID system which was a voluntary system aswell - well, until it wasn’t because it is now required to board flights or you’ll be denied entry into certain federal facilities if you don’t have it.

So no - voluntary isn’t voluntary for long. There is usually mission creep which, at some point, makes it mandatory.

and even if they did you can easily switch to a chat app that doesn’t, which isn’t illegal

Very weak argument, as messaging apps are only popular if people use them - and we know exactly how hard that is for most people. Whatsapp has been shitting on people for years and still it’s the most popular messaging app.

Just because there are a bunch of fascists trying to implement it doesn’t mean the entire EU is working against the general population.

That is not the point. The problem isn’t whether people pushing it are “fascists”, it’s that the policy is structurally dangerous because it can be used by fascists in the future. Once the framework is in place, changing the rules becomes a matter of weeks.

Of course “the entire EU” isn’t acting in bad faith. But harmful laws don’t require bad intent or unanimous malice. They only require a majority that underestimates long-term consequences. And please remember that this would not be the first badly thought out law they had passed.

In germany, there is a saying which roughly translates to: “The opposite of well done is well meant”.

Hate to break it to you, must most member states are supporting chat control by now

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Counterpoint: Chat Control

I mean, everyone knew that after the three day special operation became a yearlong war lmao.