[NutriSugar]

My concerns are the other issues.

What happens when children are stripped from families for normal images?

What happens when teens are caught for normal behavior?

What happens when people are put in prison over drawings?

All three of these have already happened.

And what happens when this gets automated and large entities like the RIAA/MPAA get other illegal content added to these searches?

[mfoy_]

The first three are policy / legislation issues. Rather than focus on the FBI / GeekSquad / See-something-say-something bits, take issue with what constitutes "illegal imagery".

Basically, all your concerns are about the scope of this, not the essence of it.

[NutriSugar]

Yes, the core problem is the law. But until the law is fixed, I'll take issue with something that extends the application of the law.

And I think it does get to the essence of it, because of just how we quantify something as illegal. The laws are very poorly written, where the worse images possible are treated just as no more illegal than images that are on the borderline of legal (not to mention that the border itself is very fluid, especially when considering artistic images that would be illegal if they weren't artistic but which is left up to a random jury to make a judgment call on).

[kakarot]

> Basically, all your concerns are about the scope of this, not the essence of it.

Congratulations, you've discovered the Slippery Slope argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

[mfoy_]

I think you replied to the wrong person.