Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Free Speech and Privacy
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#2Laws like this reminds me how little many people understand technology. There is no realistic way to my knowledge to implement this on all devices when torrents and open source operating systems exist. The article even agrees with me at some levels "The technical requirements for this kind of aggressive platform censorship at scale are simply unworkable."
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#3Apple could basically choose to ignore this law if it passed and these state governments would reveal they have no actual power in the globalized world. Oops
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#4Apple could basically choose to ignore this law if it passed and these state governments would reveal they have no actual power in the globalized world. Oops
Why would Apple do such a thing? Presumably there would be fines if they didn't comply. If everybody is doing it (which is just Google and Apple, really), nobody gains or loses and advantage, so why would they care?
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#5Laws like this reminds me how little many people understand technology. There is no realistic way to my knowledge to implement this on all devices when torrents and open source operating systems exist. The article even agrees with me at some levels "The technical requirements for this kind of aggressive platform censorship at scale are simply unworkable."
On the contrary, now with locked smartphones and tablets this is very easy to implement. Of course it would be trivially defeatable, but that is never the point. The vast majority of people would not know how to defeat it. The law is not concerned with edge cases, it's concerned with bulk surveillance.
Just like the laws against cryptography. Lawmakers are not stupid, they know they can't stop bad actors from using crypto. They don't care about bad actors, they care about you and me.
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#6Laws like this reminds me how little many people understand technology. There is no realistic way to my knowledge to implement this on all devices when torrents and open source operating systems exist. The article even agrees with me at some levels "The technical requirements for this kind of aggressive platform censorship at scale are simply unworkable."
On the contrary, now with locked smartphones and tablets this is very easy to implement. Of course it would be trivially defeatable, but that is never the point. The vast majority of people would not know how to defeat it. The law is not concerned with edge cases, it's concerned with bulk surveillance. Just like the laws against cryptography. Lawmakers are not stupid, they know they can't stop bad actors from using c…
Well, sure there are "bad actors". But some of us like to work around that bullshit just for fun, and to share :) And indeed, many of those "bad actors" are actually pretty clueless.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the contrary, now with locked smartphones and tablets this is very easy to implement. Of course it would be trivially defeatable, but that is never the point. The vast majority of people would not know how to defeat it. The law is not concerned with edge cases, it's concerned with bulk surveillance. Just like the laws against cryptography. Lawmakers are not stupid, they know they can't stop bad actors from using c…
Well, sure there are "bad actors". But some of us like to work around that bullshit just for fun, and to share :) And indeed, many of those "bad actors" are actually pretty clueless.
Would you really share if you knew you would get charged as someone who supports human trafficking and faced a decade long prison sentence? Even if you beat the charge, how employable would you be of the first thing people saw when they searched for you is your mugshot as someone arrested for supporting human trafficking?
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#8> Those filters could only be removed if consumers pay a $20 fee.
Wait, what? Why should a fee to opt out exist?
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#9Apple could basically choose to ignore this law if it passed and these state governments would reveal they have no actual power in the globalized world. Oops
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#10Don't you think it's the other way around? Lawmakers want to block free speech and eliminate privacy by using pornography as an excuse?