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The children are used as a manipulation tool - if you talk about CSAM, your videos are being demonetised and reach is being reduced and people don't want to be

The children are used as a manipulation tool - if you talk about CSAM, your videos are being demonetised and reach is being reduced and people don't want to be associated with it in any way or being attacked for opposing the idea of protecting children. If they said from the outset that they are going to scan phones for any illegal content, the push back would be much bigger. So now they have a wedge that they can gradually use to expand what is going to be scanned and when. This is a classic power move straight from 48 laws of power.

nullc 5y ago
Even searching for case law and public policy on this subject causes a chilling "WARNING CHILD ABUSE IMAGERY IS ILLEGAL" box to display on google. Speaking out enough on this gets you called a pedo. I will not go as far to claim that the people for this are intentionally using children to shield themselves from criticism push out a universal surveillance mechanism. ... but if you wanted to do exactly that, hiding behind the spectre of child abuse is exactly that. There are some hard questions we should be asking. Facebook claims to have reported some 20 million insances of child porn last year, but there were only a couple prosecutions. Are the matches fake? Is the goal really to just build a huge database of kompromat? If these images aren't a concern why are only an infinitesimal proportion of cases prosecuted?