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> I think the original use case was just terrorism but I'm pretty sure it's been used against other crimes as well. This kind of stuff is always justified with
by freeflight 5y ago
> I think the original use case was just terrorism but I'm pretty sure it's been used against other crimes as well.
This kind of stuff is always justified with "terrorism, pedophilia and organized crime", but once its in place it's usually overwhelmingly applied to much pettier crimes.
- hnbad 5y agoIt's usually CSAM or child sexual abuse in general, not pedophilia, but yes. For example Internet censorship (I believe in the form of IP bans but I'm not sure how they're meant to be implemented exactly) was originally justified with the necessity of blocking CSAM in jurisdictions that are out of reach of Germany and the EU but recently there were moves to ban the pornsite XHamster because it provided an insufficient age check to visitors (although with similar sites it's usually nothing more than a popup to the effect of "Are you old enough to view porn? Y/N"), which while still boiling down to "think of the children" isn't exactly the kind of thing von der Leyen originally described when shooting down criticism of the proposed law.