[hughrr]

Exactly this. I see lots of people saying that Apple are forced to implement something via legislation as if it’s an excuse for it.

If they want to do business in China they will be forced by their legislation.

My entire argument is don’t build the mechanism.

[floatingatoll]

China forced Apple by legislation to implement new iCloud algorithms for assigning China-region user data into China-hosted datacenters. Most countries, unlike the US, are not constrained by a requirement to only exercise previously-built mechanisms and not create new ones, in response to government demands. If China decides to require Apple to censor non-CSAM content on-device, they will do so whether or not CSAM content fingerprinting exists. That China has not done so is because they benefit greatly from Apple's manufacturing and sales and do not wish to create a diplomatic incident with Apple.

[cyanite]

> China-hosted China-decryptable datacenters.

China hosted, yes, but Apple denies China-decryptable, so that’s speculation unless you have a good source.

[floatingatoll]

Nope, that's just me remembering wrong. Deleted those two words, thanks for the correction :)