We have written to Google, Microsoft, and other companies in the Valley to advise them that their shortsighted boycott – one motivated by partisan political considerations and pressure campaigns – has had the side effect of denying us access to technologies we need such as PhotoDNA.
This is a problem. If you don't like gab, fine, but any social network running at scale is going to need assistance in keeping child sexual abuse material away. When your partisan poo-flinging contributes to the victimization of children, it's time to step back and reassess.