@openscience clearly the problem here is multi-fold - but at the outset “legal or illegal’’ is like the direction of smoke in the wind. aside from that, suppose tens of millions are guilty, what then, incarcerate the entire country? or half of it? if this happened in the united states, nearly the whole of the country would be in jail, imho. now to follow the tag, because this is alarming.

can you also link the source of information?

F*** that. Next thing they will oblige people to record their affairs in the bedroom, to make sure it was all consensual. Where will this stop?

Of course with freedom you will have the dark side of this - truly illegal activities. But those activities will always find a way to happen. To use this as an excuse to clamp down on our rights and freedoms is indeed tyrannical.

It just means more of us will run our own private servers and the advent of more mature P2P communication

This required level of moderation will probably be hurting platforms like Mastodon, no?

I wonder how they think this is supposed to work. How are ETEE mail providers going to inspect the contents of the messages? What if a user sends encrypted mail with S/MIME? Are ETEE messaging services outlawed? How are providers supposed to comply in this cases?

Does this also apply to a private person that runs a fediverse server (Mastodon, Hubzilla, ZAP, Friendica...)?

Cool so mandatory it will be for the enterprises since they are their own mail providers generally speaking.
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