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by cbsmith 822 days ago
Thought about it some more... this whole scenario makes sense in only the narrowist of contexts. Very few applications directly serve UGC to the public, and a lot of applications are B2B. You're authenticated, and there's a link to your employer (or you if you're self-employed). Uploaded data isn't made visible to the public. Services are often limited to a legal jurisdiction. If you want to upload your unencrypted child porn to a record in Google's Firebase database, you go ahead. The feds could use some easy cases.