🇪🇺 1/7 🌍 Foreign-funded lobby groups from outside the EU are pushing #ChatControl with misleading propaganda.
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Foreign-funded lobby groups from outside the EU are pushing #ChatControl with misleading propaganda. They want to #PassTheLaw to scan your chats, but who are they and who's paying them? Let's expose the network.
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1/7 Foreign-funded lobby groups from outside the EU are pushing #ChatControl with misleading propaganda. They want to #PassTheLaw to scan your chats, but who are they and who's paying them? Let's expose the network.
Thread2/7 The players:
• The Internet Watch Foundation is
UK-based and funded by the tech industry. Often cited in this debate—but not EU-based. -
2/7 The players:
• The Internet Watch Foundation isUK-based and funded by the tech industry. Often cited in this debate—but not EU-based.3/7 • Then Brussels-based Eurochild—largely
EU Commission-funded (yep, the #ChatControl proposers) plus Oak Foundation funding from 
Switzerland (foundation led by ex-US diplomat 
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3/7 • Then Brussels-based Eurochild—largely
EU Commission-funded (yep, the #ChatControl proposers) plus Oak Foundation funding from Switzerland (foundation led by ex-US diplomat ). 4/7 • Don't forget ECPAT International—
Thailand HQ, funded by 
Sweden (a #ChatControl hawk) & Swiss Oak Foundation. ECPAT hired 3 PR firms for 2024-25 to lobby for #ChatControl (Future Advocacy, EU Strategy, Purpose Campaigns). -
4/7 • Don't forget ECPAT International—
Thailand HQ, funded by Sweden (a #ChatControl hawk) & Swiss Oak Foundation. ECPAT hired 3 PR firms for 2024-25 to lobby for #ChatControl (Future Advocacy, EU Strategy, Purpose Campaigns).5/7 US-based Thorn
, vendor of scanning technology, pays FGS Global €600-700k for Brussels #ChatControl lobbying 
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5/7 US-based Thorn
, vendor of scanning technology, pays FGS Global €600-700k for Brussels #ChatControl lobbying 6/7
Let's focus on what works. Security by design. Clean the web. Mandatory takedowns. Flooding systems won't work. Back the EU Parliament's balanced 2023 proposal—it fights grooming/abuse without mass scanning. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#epmandate 
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Let's focus on what works. Security by design. Clean the web. Mandatory takedowns. Flooding systems won't work. Back the EU Parliament's balanced 2023 proposal—it fights grooming/abuse without mass scanning. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#epmandate 7/7
Who's really protecting kids—pushing feasible fixes or foreign-funded PR? Call your MEPs before tomorrow's vote on #ChatControl: https://fightchatcontrol.eu
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1/7 Foreign-funded lobby groups from outside the EU are pushing #ChatControl with misleading propaganda. They want to #PassTheLaw to scan your chats, but who are they and who's paying them? Let's expose the network.
Thread@echo_pbreyer you should be more aware of memetic context when designing images
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@echo_pbreyer you should be more aware of memetic context when designing images
@zauberlaus @echo_pbreyer should've given the "robot" hands a ring tbh
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