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Or D) employees who weren’t part of the discussions heard about it the day before the official announcement, and made a stink about it internally.

by judge2020 5y ago

haswell 5y ago
E) All of the above
- lumost 5y ago
  F) They received requests to scan for other forms of content from various governments.
  - sslayer 5y ago
    G) Secret Pedo BoardMembers/Investors/Mutual Fund Manager threaten to dump all Apple Stock.
  - valkmit 5y ago
    Underrated comment right here
  - marcan_42 5y ago
    G) Turns out they can't know if they're scanning for other forms of content, since they delegate computing the hash lists of banned content to government organizations like NCMEC anyway.
    - darwingr 5y ago
      So a hash for a public key used to encrypt something could be in there? Banned books? A video of unsavoury evidence to an institution?
      - dave7 5y ago
        Yes indeed.
jtbayly 5y ago
E) Their promise that they would only include scanning of images that appeared in multiple countries' databases. As of right now, is there even a database other than the one NCMEC has? I suspect they are waiting for the NCMEC to spin up its European branch.
- josefx 5y ago
  They are probably just waiting for several countries to spin up their databases of gay porn and blasphemous / regime critical memes. Shouldn't be too hard to find two of those countries working on a shared "child abuse" database now that the feature has been widely publicized.
  - camgunz 5y ago
    Honestly, maybe that happened and they went "oh. shit." and now they're "delaying".
  - Animats 5y ago
    There's so much censorship now worldwide, and it's increasing. Russia doesn't allow promotion of the gay agenda. Parts of the Islamic world view criticism of Islam as a killing offense. China won't tolerate the flag of Taiwan, Falun Gong, or criticism of the Party. Afghanistan no longer allows music. A decade ago, all those things were on the Internet worldwide.
    - ilamont 5y ago
      China is also cracking down on LGBTQ groups: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57759480 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57759480 Many of the closed WeChat accounts display messages saying that they had "violated" Internet regulations, without giving further details. The account names have also been deleted and just read "unnamed". "After receiving relevant complaints, all content has been blocked and the account has been suspended," the notice said. The crackdown is the latest example of what some call growing intolerance toward the LGBT community. Last year, Shanghai Pride week, modelled on Pride events in the West, was cancelled without explanation after 11 years of it going ahead. In 2019, the Oscar-winning Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody was released in Chinese cinemas, but references to the Queen singer's sexuality and AIDS diagnosis were censored. In 2018, Weibo said all posts related to homosexuality would be taken down, although it backtracked after massive outrage.

Or D) employees who weren’t part of the discussions heard about it the day before the official announcement, and made a stink about it internally.

haswell 5y ago

E) All of the above

lumost 5y ago
F) They received requests to scan for other forms of content from various governments.
- sslayer 5y ago
  G) Secret Pedo BoardMembers/Investors/Mutual Fund Manager threaten to dump all Apple Stock.
- valkmit 5y ago
  Underrated comment right here
- marcan_42 5y ago
  G) Turns out they can't know if they're scanning for other forms of content, since they delegate computing the hash lists of banned content to government organizations like NCMEC anyway.
  - darwingr 5y ago
    So a hash for a public key used to encrypt something could be in there? Banned books? A video of unsavoury evidence to an institution?
    - dave7 5y ago
      Yes indeed.

jtbayly 5y ago

E) Their promise that they would only include scanning of images that appeared in multiple countries' databases. As of right now, is there even a database other than the one NCMEC has? I suspect they are waiting for the NCMEC to spin up its European branch.

josefx 5y ago
They are probably just waiting for several countries to spin up their databases of gay porn and blasphemous / regime critical memes. Shouldn't be too hard to find two of those countries working on a shared "child abuse" database now that the feature has been widely publicized.
- camgunz 5y ago
  Honestly, maybe that happened and they went "oh. shit." and now they're "delaying".
- Animats 5y ago
  There's so much censorship now worldwide, and it's increasing. Russia doesn't allow promotion of the gay agenda. Parts of the Islamic world view criticism of Islam as a killing offense. China won't tolerate the flag of Taiwan, Falun Gong, or criticism of the Party. Afghanistan no longer allows music. A decade ago, all those things were on the Internet worldwide.
  - ilamont 5y ago
    China is also cracking down on LGBTQ groups: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57759480 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57759480 Many of the closed WeChat accounts display messages saying that they had "violated" Internet regulations, without giving further details. The account names have also been deleted and just read "unnamed". "After receiving relevant complaints, all content has been blocked and the account has been suspended," the notice said. The crackdown is the latest example of what some call growing intolerance toward the LGBT community. Last year, Shanghai Pride week, modelled on Pride events in the West, was cancelled without explanation after 11 years of it going ahead. In 2019, the Oscar-winning Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody was released in Chinese cinemas, but references to the Queen singer's sexuality and AIDS diagnosis were censored. In 2018, Weibo said all posts related to homosexuality would be taken down, although it backtracked after massive outrage.