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There are only two important points about CSAM scanning. The first is that the business model of implementing dystopia is always rolled out as "to save the chi
by VLM 4y ago
There are only two important points about CSAM scanning.
The first is that the business model of implementing dystopia is always rolled out as "to save the children". Rest assured once the infrastructure is in place the oppression will have nothing to do with "saving children" and everything to do with oppressing people for wrongthink or "the fifth amendment doesn't apply to IP / digital property" and so on.
The second is that the point of dystopia is to stabilize a society by enforcing classism, for better or worse. The point of this system is to make everyone understand perfectly that the purpose of the system is to ensure that, for example, if the president's son were caught he would be unpunished, in fact the story would be aggressively censored, but if a poor person were falsely accused by some kind of mistake they would go to prison because our legal system is entirely monetary based. Its a loud message of "everyone get on that hamster wheel and run faster because we say so and we need more concentration of money and power at the top". The powers that be think there's too much class mobility, too much social instability, too much equality, we need to lock down to preserve their position at the top, and if they just lock down harder and harder they'll never fall. Historically this strategy has always been implemented because it works in the short term yet usually fails in the long term.
- Sporktacular 4y agoThis is conjectural, bordering on paranoid. It could happen, but you present no evidence that it will, or even that the effort to make it so is deliberate and coordinated.