The provided link will let you contact MPs with just a few lazy clicks.

Just a few years older, in IT as a career, and absolutely the same.

There seems to be some kind of group repeatedly pushing this crap every other year, with increasingly shady tactics.

I would for sure like to know from where this emanates...

Blocking HTTPS would be frighteningly hilarious. My employer is one of thousands of websites that utilizes HSTS, which tells web browsers to use HTTPS. Our implementation of HSTS, like lots of banks etc. is also listed with HSTSpreload, which means browsers like chrome will only ever use HTTPS with our site.

Don't need to ban encryption, just control top level certificate authorities and have access to private keys.

I'd like to see them try to get mine lol.

By banning HTTPS at the ISP level?

I think you might not be aware of it but big institutions like governments and such can basically already circumvent HTTPS encryption by supplying fake root certificates and forcing the ISP to redirect traffic through their own servers.

That is why End-to-End encryption is such a big deal. Because it cannot be circumvented by the government alone. If done right (proper key exchange), it cannot be broken by anyone but the legitimate recipients. The way WhatsApp does it today, Meta could technically break it too, though i'm not sure whether they do.

There are no "good guys" or "bad guys" in geopolitics, just shades of grey. On quite a few topics, the EU is better, but any government is capable of doing stupid shit.

No, the EU is just as much liberal capitalism as the US. They have a better social safety net and looked better in comparison.

the EU commission is absolutely dumb and definitely not on the side of the people though. by the way, it's also not democratically elected.

The EU's been veering right for a few years now.

Feeling hopeful about giant tech companies ignoring attempts to reign them in is unwise, even when it occasionally lines up with something you personally want. And I even say that as someone with permanent distrust of the big power structures doing the regulating.

Of course chat control would be practically infeasible. But it's not even about that. It's about the simple fact that the EU commission ignores the will of the people, when the people have already clearly said NO. It's about the disrespect that the EU commission exerts against the people. That in itself is unacceptable.

It's ironic to use a meme from a movie depicting a fascistic government, to protest against a fascistic measure.

In germany, it's not technically unconstitutional (i checked last week because i assumed it should be) but it definitely feels like it should be unconstitutional. After WW2, there was a consensus to not surveil your own population, and this is a very important constraint to keep in mind.

According to the EU constitution?