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by comeonseriously 1778 days ago
> And it's always there also for whoever they claim to want to catch, so this measure is useless.

Right. This will, a) catch the low hanging fruit type of criminal and b) keep honest people honest while forcing them to give up something for nothing.

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c) non-trivial chance it will be used for something much worse than what (a) & (b) fix, without solving the main issue

That risk is not tiny, can you imagine any authoritarian government asking a compliant Apple to remove inconvenient pictures?