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The King’s Gate.
The Net Curtain
The Tower of London.
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should be explicit here; Should it be legal to (1) create and (2) distribute an AI generated sexual image of a (1) 18 year old, (2) 12 year old? (In both cases without their consent.) What about a real photograph?
Sexual abuse (of adults and of children) is abhorrent, illegal, and should remain so. A number cannot be illegal.
> A number cannot be illegal.
Why equivocate? Go ahead and own it, tell us what you think about AI-generated CSAM using plain language.
gp had helpfully numbered questions that you could have said yes/no to.
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#63Nobody voted for this. I'm pretty cynical about both the current and previous government, but it feels like there's been a shift since Labour came into power. Historically this overbearing surveillance has been held back. There was chatter but it was met with resistance. Now it feels like the discussion is being squashed and there are invisible forces at work. If by some miracle the UK and EU agree on a new Youth Mob…
> Historically this overbearing surveillance has been held back. That‘s not my impression at all about the UK. They are known for mass CCTV surveillance since more than a decade. There’s even a wikipedia page for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...
> There’s even a wikipedia page for it
There is a Wikipedia page on surveillance in Austria, and the US. Not sure what your point is, it's not like most of the west isn't under surveillance or that the UK is more monitored than other countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...
Or are you implying that Germany doesn't have any surveillance because it doesn't have a dedicated English Wikipedia page?
There is a lot of rhetoric aimed at the UK, and I'm not saying it's great, but there is a lot of convenient omission on other countries actions.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a difference between filming the public in public-spaces (which is what the mass CCTV surveillance does) and reading everyone's private messages and every image uploaded from their devices. This is a step chance (if it goes ahead) and doesn't feel very different from what the Chinese State is doing to its citizens.
I agree. But I'm saying is that the current mass surveillance is already overreaching as-is.
You refer to CCTV for state mass surveillance, and link to Wikipedia pages but it doesn't appear that you even read them.
> The vast majority of CCTV cameras are not operated by government bodies, but by private individuals or companies, especially to monitor the interiors of shops and businesses. According to 2011 Freedom of Information Act requests, the total number of local government operated CCTV cameras was around 52,000 over the entirety of the UK.
The NYPD alone had 18k back in 2018.
https://securitytoday.com/articles/2018/10/29/new-surveillan...
That doesn't make the UK appear to be monitored heavier than other locations when a single city in the US approaches half their total number of cameras.