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> I'm a parent [...] > Apple can already scan your stuff on their servers (and should!). It's crazy to me how you fail to see that instead of everyone playing
by pas 5y ago
> I'm a parent [...]
> Apple can already scan your stuff on their servers (and should!).
It's crazy to me how you fail to see that instead of everyone playing cyber cowboys and child predator indians the focus for preventing child abuse should be in real life. Criminalizing content does absolutely nothing for those kids who are abused by someone close to them. And unfortunately the vast majority (~75%) of cases happen like that.
If the stats are even remotely right it's unfathomable how bad prevention and deterrence is. (Over the course of their lifetime, 28% of U.S. youth ages 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized -- https://victimsofcrime.org/child-sexual-abuse-statistics/ https://victimsofcrime.org/child-sexual-abuse-statistics/ )
This shows how bad our aggregated priorities are. War on X so far only made X worse. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- slownews45 5y agoActually - sharing and having the photos out there is further and active victimization of the victims and does bother them. So shutting that down is a good use of resources.
- pas 5y agoDo they get a nice feel good card from NCMEC that states that they have managed to delete this many copies that year? /s I don't doubt for a minute that victims continue to suffer from the knowledge that there's a lot of traumatizing content on the Internet, and that various services integrating with clearinghouses help. I also don't doubt that Apple is at least semi-competent and could pull this off in an okay-ish way. But all the goodwill and clout that these megacorps have would have been better spent on advocating for policies that prevent child abuse. (Neglect, physical and sexual.)