[jai_]

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have been campaigning to address child sexual exploitation for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(organization)

I would guess they are simplying sponsoring this legislation sincerly without understanding the privacy ramifications if it passed.

[wewxjfq]

The initial link claims they are lobbying for client-side scanning while they are offering a commercial product for client-side scanning.

[jonnybgood]

What commercial product are they offering?

[whstl]

According to this article, it seems they want to sell it directly to chat applications.

"There's a company called Thorn that is lobbying for the scanning contract and would love to get a government mandate for its software to be installed into your chat clients," he said.

Apparently Apple didn't want to pay and developed their own in-house, only to scrap it after complaints from the public.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/13/clientside_scanning_c...

[unity1001]

Wow this is literally textbook crap.

[belter]

Problem is Ashton Kutcher in real life, always seems to play the role of the useful fool: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/01/14/watch-cnbcs-full-inter...

[slackdog]

My guess is that the actors are actors, being paid to represent the interests of others who don't care to be famous themselves.