| > You'd still have deniability as to what your users are up to; after all, you can't be expected to police all the user-generated content faster than they can create it. For now… This law is a stepping stone to government–curated mandatory content filtering. Facebook & Google are already testing & developing the technology voluntarily[1]. The government will initially say you don’t have use it, of course, but maybe if you choose to then you won’t have to worry about that nasty liability laws… If it’s voluntarily then there’s no 1st amendment issue, they’ll have their lawyers argue. And the people will agree, nodding along in their safe spaces, as even now they mindlessly repeat that “censorship is legal,” don’t you know, “if the corporations do it.” And at first it will be fine. But all that’s left for that censorship dream to become a sweet reality is just one final missing puzzle piece. To make the list secret. So close! How will they do it? Maybe they’ll say that a list of hashes /fingerprints of illegal content is “facilitating” child pornography, because after all that’s how Torrents and DHTs work. Is a magnet link not facilitating piracy? Not convinced? Just then Google will deliver with an AI technology to recreate images from the Fingerprints, not quite perfect, but the cherry picked examples resembling the original content just enough to make you feel uncomfortable[2]. Could the Fingerprints be modified to prevent it? Is it possible they were in fact designed with this exact goal in mind from the very beginning? You don’t dare to ask. You are not a PEDOPHILE. The list becomes secret. Do you think this is far fetched?[3] > internal documents showed Ulbricht knew he was facilitating the drug trade They also showed him ordering hits on people[3] for as long as it was necessary to serve as a convenient distraction. [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/11/facebook_fing... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni... [4] https://freeross.org/2014/08/31/mia-murder-for-hire-charges/ |