[rdm_blackhole]

> What are we to do if not monitor?

Simple, you can choose to only use platforms that use the most stringent scanning technologies for you and your family.

You give the UK government (or the equivalent that applies to you) the right to continuously scan everything from pictures to emails to messages and then obviously you give them the right to prosecute you and come after you when one of their AI algorithms mistakenly detects child porn on your device or in your messages just like this guy: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs...

For the rest of us, we should be free to opt out from being surveilled by machines 24/7.

Then everyone is happy.

Edited: typos

[btasker]

Personally, I think this is the answer too - rather than mandating it across all platforms, they could have created a service which provides scanning so that there was an additional app people could choose to install (and would, presumably, present as an accessibility addon so it could access content in other apps).

That's not without its own issues though - creating external deps is more or less what they did the first time they tried to mandate age verification.

Although their plans fell through, they created an industry who'd expected a captive market and started lobbying heavily. Eventually, it worked and we've ended up with mandatory age verification.