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I realize this is about the least popular opinion you can express on HN, but I really strongly dislike the lack of engagement with the issue here. Online abuse
by Veedrac 5y ago
I realize this is about the least popular opinion you can express on HN, but I really strongly dislike the lack of engagement with the issue here.
Online abuse, of all varieties, including sexual abuse, including of children, is not a boogieman. It is not marginal. It is not so rare as to be a rounding error. It is not enough for you, personally, to not want to partake in it. A person is not bad, or evil, or morally compromised, for recognizing or wanting to mitigate this problem.
Semi-centralized control over data is not the end of the world. Most people are rightly fine with companies storing their data. The ability to enforce laws in publically shared online spaces is not an unthinkable compromise. Not all data needs to be end-to-end encrypted and immune to outside influence. Defaults matter. Purely offline methods of intervention and investigation are difficult to apply.
I understand there are significant difficulties here. I moved to DuckDuckGo for my default search engine as a response to the mess Google made wrt. COVID. I am extremely worried about how disinformation countermeasures have and will continue to be misapplied. I realize that governments are not generally trustworthy. I agree that overregulation is extremely harmful.
I just wish people would take both sides of the issue equally seriously.
- imtringued 5y agoIn that case we should stop the online safety bill entirely because it will only end up with more child abuse in the end!