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Wait, so you are against the new PROTECT system that scans all images for signs of child sexual abuse and blocks and reports any images containing those signs?
by Lawtonfogle 12y ago
Wait, so you are against the new PROTECT system that scans all images for signs of child sexual abuse and blocks and reports any images containing those signs? Why do you love child abuse images so much? Why are you protecting child molesters? Are you are a pedophile?
All said with a /s, but with a serious question. What happens when we reach a point where the software and hardware exist to do this? Many hosting providers are already doing something similar as well. I believe they work by taking a image hash and comparing it to a known database, but the newer hashes work even as the images are slowly modified.
Would there be any way to stand against this trend without being demonized?
- userbinator 12y agoSimilar is the argument that anyone who wants privacy/freedom is either a criminal, terrorist, or hacker (cracker)... but "think of the children" evokes such an emotive response among most of the population that it's difficult to counter. I'm just glad we're not at the level of "open-source image processing software and hardware enables banknote counterfeiting" yet...
- njharman 12y ago> Would there be any way to stand against this trend without being demonized? Suffrage, Civil rights, Gender equality movements have/are been able to stand and change world while being demonized.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Would there be any way to stand against this trend without being demonized? Every political position is demonized by its opponents. The ones that are successful are championed by people that persevere even though they are demonized. (That is not, of course, to say that all those with such champions are successful, however.)