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At some point it becomes amoral to do nothing.
by DSingularity 5y ago
At some point it becomes amoral to do nothing.
- jszymborski 5y agoThat's a false equivalence. Surely there are things that are to be done (and in fact are done) that don't involve spying on all civilians.
- netr0ute 5y agoTo do nothing against what?
- DSingularity 5y agoAgainst the use of your product for something harmful.
- hughrr 5y agoAsk that question to weapons manufacturers.
- stefan_ 5y agoWhich is what, exactly? The irony of this system is that it is obviously only capable to scan for images that are already long in circulation.
- quenix 5y ago... and stop their further propagation. It's kind of like a viral pandemic—just because a virus has been spreading for a while, doesn't mean we should drop any attempts to stop new infections from spreading to five more people each. The more platforms we make unable to keep CSAM on disk, the harder it is for it to circulate in a viral fashion. With this change, all iOS machines become immediately unviable as CP transmission vectors.
- netr0ute 5y agoPhones are tools, not people, so it shouldn't matter what I use it for.
- Zak 5y agoThis is a very slippery slope. Users of iOS devices have already ceded general-purpose computing in favor of Apple being their sysadmin. Now Apple is using that control and access to act against the interests of some users. The fact that it's only targeting users doing something almost universally considered heinous is irrelevant. If Apple can scan your encrypted photos to make sure they don't contain child abuse, why not scan your encrypted chats to make sure they don't contain a conspiracy to commit murder, or an arrangement to buy drugs, or a plan to reveal something embarrassing to the ruling party?