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Thank you for writing this. Of all the topics I’ve had to work with in my career, this one has caused me by far the most frustration. I like to think the hacker community is genera…

Characterising people who analyse reprehensible material in order to try to save children from abuse as “pedos working for government to watch all the reported images” is, quite fr…

The thing is, it _is_ controversial. At least amongst the general public. Obviously not in somewhere like Hacker News where there’s a clear consensus, but if you asked a random sam…

This feels like a perfectionist fallacy. One has to start somewhere, pornography is something we can pretty much all agree children shouldn’t be watching. It’s theoretically a most…

Very reasonable, and indeed the July deadline will make it very likely that they _don't_ use a privacy-preserving method like Privacy Pass (and it's very reasonable for people to r…

Hot take: I'm in favour of this. There's actually been significant progress in developing privacy-preserving attestation technologies in the last few years, that could enable anony…