Hello, I have been recently reading about the "Chat Control" EU project.
For those interested, Tuta has a nice summary: https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism Reading the project, I have been surprised to see it could have deep consequences, not only for big messaging players, but for any chat hosting providers. The idea is that all providers should be able to monitor and report traffic defined as prohibited by the state Coordinating Authority. Providers list include hosting service, interpersonal communications services, for example. I did not see any exemption in terms of platform sizes so I assume it could have a serious impact on XMPP server hosting. I do not even see how it can be applied to an open protocol, given that you can connect to a server with any compliant client, we would have no way to enforce a backdoor for message scanning. Have there been some discussion on that topic at the XSF ? Is it really as catastrophic as it looks ? And if so, what should we do as members or as XSF ? Thanks ! -- Mickaël Rémond
