I'm not opposed to the ideas presented here in an ideal world, but image recognition is far from perfect and if developers attempt to implement this (making the

I'm not opposed to the ideas presented here in an ideal world, but image recognition is far from perfect and if developers attempt to implement this (making their photo apps the equivalent of something other than a "common-carrier" of image bits) when it inevitably fails to detect a "nudie" it seems likely they will eventually be sued, especially if they implement an "underage" filter (which the article also suggests) that fails (which it of course inevitably will, and often). I do think it is pretty bad that some platforms/apps default to sync-to-cloud in a way that the use of cloud storage may not be clear to the user. I still remember the uneasy feeling I got the first time I took a photo with Google+ and it asked me if I wanted to automatically upload all subsequent photos to the "cloud", and that's despite the fact that 1) I don't use my phone to take nudies anyway and 2) at least Google+ asked and didn't default to sync-to-cloud.