You might be surprised to learn who's doing the pushing:

https://www.wired.com/story/europes-moral-crusader-lays-down...

https://www.statewatch.org/news/2024/july/police-should-have...

I think you read my clumsy sentence backwards. They absolutely want to get in the middle of messaging, all of them. This is behind many of the calls for E2E interop as well -- all the proposals I'm aware of call for termination somewhere in the middle; you can imagine who'd like to be at that termination middle point. This is why Apple will not "move over" to RCS, ever, as a first class transport -- it's fundamentally no more secure than OTA plaintext to existing persistent threat actors.

To be clear, the legislation in France and in the EU that is most likely behind this arrest is that companies have to at least try to do some moderation. There is an understanding that not everything can be moderated (obviously, the entire Internet would be banned otherwise) but there has to be a genuine attempt.

Which every company does more or less. The fact that Telegram doesn't reach this extremely low, very low bar is quite something.

> literally implementing

> it failed to pass recently

These two sentences cannot be both true

A handful of EU MEPs keep pushing backdoored encryption and it keeps getting veto’d.

There are two legistive bodies in the EU, one is only allowed to propose law, the other is only allowed to vote on it.

Lots of braindead laws get put to a vote, theres no requirement that they get through.

I understand that raising the alarm is helpful, but it would be helpful if people took a second to understand how the EU works, the politicians involved and how their motions are perceived by the rest of parliament.

In the UK, I have a stormtrooper standing behind me in my bedroom as I type this. He just asked me to explain the context of the message I'm writing to you now.

Using this as a means to manufacture consent to implement-enforce such systems, and then what regulation will be used to counter the tyrannical takeover of these systems - who may be the most vile child predators seeking control-power to be able to do what they want - to pillage, rape, and murder as they please?

Perhaps you got thrown by the double negative?

> I don't believe there are any western nations that want non-locally-backdoored messaging of any sort

means

> I believe every western nation wants all messaging to be locally-backdoored

> EU is literally implementing a regulation

Does it?