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IMO, this will always be a problem with "cloud" services now. No company is going to host illegal content if it makes them liable, and they can't use the "we c

IMO, this will always be a problem with "cloud" services now. No company is going to host illegal content if it makes them liable, and they can't use the "we can't check everything" excuse anymore because the technology now exists to check everything. Implementing it, or buying it from somebody, will just be a cost of doing business for hosting companies.

reificator 9y ago
> the technology now exists to check everything But we're certainly not at the point where it's even approaching the accuracy of a human being. False positives and false negatives abound. When that means the service I pay for as a backup starts deleting my innocent content because it thought it was porn, that's when I leave that tool and never come back.
- jlarocco 9y ago
  > But we're certainly not at the point where it's even approaching the accuracy of a human being. You say that like it's an end of the world show stopping bug. There's no reason a company can't have a process for handling those mistakes. > False positives and false negatives abound. When that means the service I pay for as a backup starts deleting my innocent content because it thought it was porn, that's when I leave that tool and never come back. And go where? If everybody has to filter content then they'll all have those issues.
ISL 9y ago
"We can't check everything" if it is encrypted client-side.
- jlarocco 9y ago
  Yeah, that's the only solution that will work.
TheCoelacanth 9y ago
Porn isn't illegal, though. This porn didn't even seem to be infringing on copyright, which is probably more than you can say for a lot of content stored on Google Drive. Google avoiding making itself an accomplice to illegal activities would be far easier to swallow than Google appointing itself the arbiter of some puritanical ideas of morality.

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IMO, this will always be a problem with "cloud" services now. No company is going to host illegal content if it makes them liable, and they can't use the "we c

by jlarocco 9y ago

reificator 9y ago
> the technology now exists to check everything But we're certainly not at the point where it's even approaching the accuracy of a human being. False positives and false negatives abound. When that means the service I pay for as a backup starts deleting my innocent content because it thought it was porn, that's when I leave that tool and never come back.
- jlarocco 9y ago
  > But we're certainly not at the point where it's even approaching the accuracy of a human being. You say that like it's an end of the world show stopping bug. There's no reason a company can't have a process for handling those mistakes. > False positives and false negatives abound. When that means the service I pay for as a backup starts deleting my innocent content because it thought it was porn, that's when I leave that tool and never come back. And go where? If everybody has to filter content then they'll all have those issues.
ISL 9y ago
"We can't check everything" if it is encrypted client-side.
- jlarocco 9y ago
  Yeah, that's the only solution that will work.
TheCoelacanth 9y ago
Porn isn't illegal, though. This porn didn't even seem to be infringing on copyright, which is probably more than you can say for a lot of content stored on Google Drive. Google avoiding making itself an accomplice to illegal activities would be far easier to swallow than Google appointing itself the arbiter of some puritanical ideas of morality.