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Wasn’t sure if you were being serious but sure enough: “Thorn, a U.S. 501(c) (3) organization founded by Hollywood star-turned venture capitalist Ashton Kutche
by Kognito 4y ago
Wasn’t sure if you were being serious but sure enough:
“Thorn, a U.S. 501(c) (3) organization founded by Hollywood star-turned venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher and his former partner Demi Moore, has been a central force lobbying for the legislation.”
- ClumsyPilot 4y agowhat the fuck? are they front men? For whom?
- jai_ 4y agoAshton Kutcher and Demi Moore have been campaigning to address child sexual exploitation for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(organization) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(organization) I would guess they are simplying sponsoring this legislation sincerly without understanding the privacy ramifications if it passed.
- belter 4y agoProblem is Ashton Kutcher in real life, always seems to play the role of the useful fool: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/01/14/watch-cnbcs-full-interview-with-ashton-kutcher-and-wework-ceo-adam-neumann.html https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/01/14/watch-cnbcs-full-inter...
- slackdog 4y agoMy guess is that the actors are actors, being paid to represent the interests of others who don't care to be famous themselves.
- wewxjfq 4y agoThe initial link claims they are lobbying for client-side scanning while they are offering a commercial product for client-side scanning.
- jonnybgood 4y agoWhat commercial product are they offering?
- whstl 4y agoAccording to this article, it seems they want to sell it directly to chat applications. "There's a company called Thorn that is lobbying for the scanning contract and would love to get a government mandate for its software to be installed into your chat clients," he said. Apparently Apple didn't want to pay and developed their own in-house, only to scrap it after complaints from the public. https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/13/clientside_scanning_csam_anderson/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/13/clientside_scanning_c...
- unity1001 4y agoWow this is literally textbook crap.
- trompetenaccoun 4y agoHe is a professional actor - so there's that. On a more serious note though I'd also like to know. I never paid attention what Hollywood actors do in their spare time, but it's well known around the world that there are politicians and lobby groups pushing for authoritarian measures under the guise of doing it "to protect the children".