21–30 of 192 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you're describing is the end of the internet.
Honestly, maybe it’s time to consider that. Saying “oh well, let’s give up on laws because the internet is worldwide and unlimited” doesn’t feel like a good choice to me.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you're describing is the end of the internet.
It's really not. Facebook making money off of illegal activity conveniently hidden behind national borders is not the cornerstone of the Internet.
Are they supposed to monitor the content of the chats? Some would call that eavesdropping.
The sad fact is that desperate people exist. And these desperate people are willing to do despicable things to make a buck.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, maybe it’s time to consider that. Saying “oh well, let’s give up on laws because the internet is worldwide and unlimited” doesn’t feel like a good choice to me.
Shutting down all the roads because criminals use them doesn't really make sense. Does the internet equivalent?
Unless, of course, "it's so hard to regulate" is just a thought-terminating cliché because the SV set also benefits from lax internet laws. But I'm sure it can't be that, no...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure it is. If a country can’t find and enforce a law or extradite someone for doing such a thing, order the carrier of the extortion messages to block the entire country or charge the message carrier itself, especially if minors are involved. Like if Facebook is being a safe haven for Nigerian extortionists, either they block Nigeria or Australia blocks Facebook.
if they do that they will just use VPNs. you can't stop this no matter what, you just have to educate people and hope they don't fall victim.
While my heart goes out to all the victims' families, what are platforms like Facebook supposed to do here? Are they supposed to monitor the content of the chats? Some would call that eavesdropping. The sad fact is that desperate people exist. And these desperate people are willing to do despicable things to make a buck.
So "Facebook should abort itself" is one option.
Black Mirror. S3 E3
Bit different imo. If some scammer sends me my bro's penile pic, I'm gonna delete it and warn him. If the scammer sends me proof he was consuming illegal, immoral CSAM, I'm having a vastly different reaction. The shame is the key to this scam. The intersection of (especially teenaged) insecurity, and America cultures nonsensical relationship to sex and shame, is tragic.
In this day and age, if you fall for something like that, just refuse to pay and say you'll tell people it's an AI fake. I think the days of this sort of scam being very effective are over, or will be soon.
Anyone can write absolutely anything with little check and balance on substance, and MILLIONS still believe tabloids and headlines. We've been able to reliably edit photos/video/film for 80 years with an exponential increase in its efficiency within the last 30 - and we still have millions that would take a photo or video's substance at face-value.