I believe the current Danish chat control is still trying to convince the countries against it to change their minds by Christmas, hopefully they won’t and some of the countries for it will see sense. In the meantime it is worth noting how effective this campaign has been.

From October 8th 2025

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘Chat Control’ bill

A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

BRUSSELS — A website set up by an unknown Dane over the course of one weekend in August is giving a massive headache to those trying to pass a European bill aimed at stopping child sexual abuse material from spreading online.

The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer living in Aalborg, Denmark. He made it after learning of a new attempt to approve a European Union proposal to fight child sexual abuse material — a bill seen by privacy activists as breaking encryption and leading to mass surveillance.

The site lets visitors compile a mass email warning about the bill and send it to national government officials, members of the European Parliament and others with ease. Since launching, it has broken the inboxes of MEPs and caused a stir in Brussels’ corridors of power.

“We are getting hundreds per day about it,” said Evin Incir, a Swedish Socialists and Democrats MEP, of the email deluge.

Three diplomats at national permanent representation offices said they too have received a large number of emails.

Joachim’s website has stoked up an already red-hot debate around the CSAM proposal, which would give police the power to force companies like WhatsApp and Signal to scan their services for the illegal content. Critics fear the bill would enable online state surveillance.

Elon Musk’s X said Monday that the bill could enable “government instituted mass surveillance,” and encrypted chat app Signal said last weekend it would pull out of Europe if the bill passed. Meta’s WhatsApp also came out against Denmark’s proposal — backing Europe’s privacy groups, which have railed against the bill ever since its conception.

EU countries are split into two camps. One side broadly backs the bill’s measures as a way to stop predators from sharing illegal content of children; the other says it would create a surveillance state and be ineffective.

Denmark proposed a new version on its first day holding the presidency of the Council of the EU in July. Danish diplomats hope to get an agreement at a meeting of ministers in Luxembourg next week, and for that, the proposal needs to get past EU ambassadors on Wednesday.

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