The EU’s attempt to assume that all of its citizens are guilty of crimes and to then scan all of their communications is finally dead. But the dangerous ideas that spawned this insanity live on.Punching Upwards, Episode 38 for 31 May 2026Topics: Privacy / Crypto Wars🦉 No AI Content 📢 Podcast RSS FeedCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vlad A Gouf, Fadi Mansour, Bennet Piater, Eric and Sir Galteran for supporting this podcast financially and therefore making it possible for me to produce it!See Also* Punching Upwards 27: LLMs Are a Dead-End* Punching Upwards 14: Chat Control is Back* Punching Upwards 6: Chat Control DeniedSources* End of “Chat Control”: EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller – Paving the Way for Genuine Child Protection!, Patrick Breyer, 26 March 2026* YouTube short from Tuta, 24 March 2026The theme music for the podcast is a track called Fight or Fall by Def Lev. Find out more about the show at fab.industries/podcast — new media, new rules! Get full access to Punching Upwards at punchingupwards.substack.com/subscribe