BREAKING NEWS

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

I am OK here because you don't have to use iCloud.

True, but I imagine if this is even marginally successful it will spread beyond Apple until anyone NOT using a similar system is accused of being actively aiding pedophiles. RE: gab/parler and actual Nazis.

[DBTrek]

You're just forecasting the inevitable shift from all of the Marxists enemies being "racist" to all of them being "pedophiles".
Eventually they'll circle back to "wreckers", "counter-revolutionaries", and "enemies of the people" - but they have to consolidate power first.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

I doubt it will take such a wending road. Once the infrastructure for catching pedophiles is in place.... imagination and will are the only limits.

[Zlaxer]

I doubt it will take such a wending road. Once the infrastructure for catching pedophiles is in place.... imagination and will are the only limits.

Is that a Maga hat I see in one of your iCloud pics? Or is that a cross on a necklace?

- Good - the faster this happens the more likely we can avoid techtopia. Normies are fucking frogs - burn them with fire instead of slowly boiling them. Wake them up so they see the shit that is comming.

[Smitty-48]

Wake them up so they see the shit that is comming.

the long arc of recorded history makes it pretty clear

the masses don't just wake up before the wrath of God befalls them

the wrath of God befalls them first, then they repent

[Haumana]

We all hate pedophiles, and we are all suspicious of big-tech - but how do we feel about an AI built by Apple catching pedophiles.

There are a few main components to this week's announcement. First, Apple will be scanning photos on people's devices when they attempt to upload them to iCloud to see if they match known images of child pornography. If the scan comes up positive, the image will be reviewed by a person, and if it contains child porn, the account will be disabled and the report will be sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. There is an appeal process if Apple is mistaken.

Apple promises that nobody will actually be snooping on your photos unless there's a computer match via a complex cryptographic technological program designed to keep tabs on child porn images that circulate on the internet. Apple claims there's "less than a one in one trillion chance per year of incorrectly flagging a given account."

https://reason.com/2021/08/06/apple-wil ... ick-picks/

One in one trillion is pretty small, but I am not sure I am thrilled about Hal accusing me of being a pedo - even if there is an appeal process. I'd almost rather a human snoop my dick-pics than a 'complex cryptographic technological program.'

I'm looking for some other takes on this because I am feeling.... ambivalent.

Pedophiles or automated panopticon: which is worse?

Fuck that, fuck smartphones and fuck Big Tech watching what the fuck that anyone in particular does. Greater good means less freedom.

[Martin Hash]

Trump was the last futile dike. Especially now that laws can spring from anyone who claims they’re doing what’s best for everyone.

Our 4th of July fireworks were canceled a day after the booths opened due to “safety issues.”

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Trump was the last futile dike.

There's a great futile dyke joke to be made, here - but I'm far too classy to make it.

[Smitty-48]

Trump was the last futile dike. Especially now that laws can spring from anyone who claims they’re doing what’s best for everyone.

this is classic and ultimate case of : not everything is up for debate

there is a threshold beyond which argument is pointless

some things simply cannot be addressed by politics, as politics requires middle ground

there's no political solution to a civilizational collapse at the cultural level decades in the making

[Martin Hash]

Trump was the last futile dike.

There's a great futile dyke joke to be made, here - but I'm far too classy to make it.

Go ahead, make it. I want to see if it’s funny.