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> they've just committed a felony (distributing child pornography)

In the US, maybe (not sure if this is even true in all states), but not in most other countries in the world, where a 16-year-old is not a child, nudity is not a problem, and "sex offender registries" don't exist.

The US is entitled to make its own (crazy, ridiculous, stupid) laws, but we shouldn't let them impose those on the rest of us.

Yet for the largest part this is where we are ending up. Just look at Facebook and Twitter deciding what is right and wrong. I think that's wrong in a lot of ways but appearantly there is very little the EU and others can do about it.

There is a lot the EU could do if it wanted to, or had any kind of courage. But we are weak and fearful.

I’d argue that the problem of minors declared sex offenders for nude pictures has reached a critical mass that scares me. At this point, sex offenders of truly vile things can hide by saying that they are on a sex offender registry because of underage selfies. And I think most people will believe them.

I worked with someone that claimed this, years ago. And they were still young enough that I believed them.

Am I missing something? Why would they say they're sex offenders at all?

They wouldn't. But if they were sex offenders, they could claim that their offense was simply sending a nude when they were 16. While their real offense may have been rape.

I don't actually know what the law is in regard to sex offense. I'm simply explaining what I understood from the previous comment.

As I understand it, one of the primary purposes of sex offender registries is to get information out about who is on them. I believe some people are forced to knock on doors in their neighbourhood and disclose it. In other situations they would just be getting ahead of the story.

> if, say a 16-yo sends a nude selfie to their s.o., they've just committed a felony ... The laws may not be just or correct, but they are the current state of the world.

Hence, strong E2E encryption designed to prevent unjust government oppression, without backdoors.

Parents should talk to their teenagers about sex regardless of if they get a notification on their phone telling them they missed the boat.

I get your points, but the end result is that the client in an E2EE system can no longer be fully trusted to act on the clients behalf. That seems alarming to me.

> The laws may not be just or correct, but they are the current state of the world

America, not Europe. Or Japan.