The Narthex
Chat Control: It's Baaack
Europe is on the verge of building an all-seeing machine
By Sabino Paciolla | December 5th 2025 12:22 PMAs I wrote previously, the EU's liberticidal Chat Control law seemed to have been definitively shelved in October. Strong opposition from Germany and other member states led to the belief that Brussels' Orwellian project had finally foundered. But anyone familiar with the mechanisms of the European Union knows well that…
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But the war for privacy, and thus for democracy, continues
By Sabino Paciolla | October 14th 2025 11:00 AMWriting in the October 9 Die Welt, Andreas Rosenvelder observed that then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt said something remarkable in a 2009 interview: "If there's something you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't do it.” The advice seems harmless, like that of an older brother, but it's also the…
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