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More horrifying is the number of people defending or apologizing for this move. Truly mind boggling!

• wyager 5y ago
  Anything for the children!! I think that earnest acceptance of “well, it’s for a good cause” style arguments indicates a severely stunted ability to generalize: either to generalize applications of the technology (it works on any proscribed content, not just stuff people generally agree is bad) or to generalize outcomes of this kind of corporate behavior (Apple will continue to actively spy on their customers as long as they can come up with a tenuous justification for it).
  • rantwasp 5y ago
    yes, think about the children! nobody thinks about the children that are literally starving every day or that are in social settings where they simply cannot succeed. Let’s just treat everyone like disgusting criminals until THEY prove they are innocent by giving us access to everything they do. The more I see, the more I want to literally dump all technology and go live off the grid.
    • simondotau 5y ago
      Translation: The child porn industry needs to wait until we solve world hunger. Priorities, people!
      • rantwasp 5y ago
        The real translation is that nobody gives a fuck about the children but they use this as an excuse to peddle their bs backdoors.
        • simondotau 5y ago
          You got that right—this is a bullshit back door. That's my favourite kind of back door. Because it does one thing incredibly well: it starves of oxygen the one remotely tractable argument politicians have found to break real E2E encryption with real, non-bullshit back doors. With this technology in place, never again will the Government be able to wail "think of the children" when claiming E2E needs a back door in order to protect the the children. Give me the bullshit back door any day.
• EasyTiger_ 5y ago
  This is such a massive story now there will be damage control.