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This petition is full of inaccurate claims.
Which claims are you referring to?
The claims they quoted, I'm assuming.
You get downvoted by people who do not read but you are correct.
The latest proposal is to use some sort of AI on your device to check for CSAM, and not more than that. It eliminates the need to decrypt the chat.
Still unwanted and uncalled for. Because criminals will simply move somewhere else. And so will I if this proposal gets accepted.
That's what you get when you have politicians voting on a scary sounding proposal while there's no concrete plan on how it will be implemented.
They have not voted yet... Leave them the time to build a concrete plan...