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Comment by Jxl180 | Hacker News Reader

If they kill the program, headlines will read: “Apple refuses to protect sexually abused children” or “Apple sides with protecting child pornographers.” I anecdotally see no backlash outside of HN and the tech/libertarian-focused parts of Reddit. To the casual iPhone buyer making up their billions in revenue, turning back on the program wouldn’t be good optics. Obviously my statement is purely conjecture, I’ll admit that.

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I don't think they have to compromise on the CP protection.

They can just go along with what other cloud storage providers have been doing all along... that is, "we won't snoop into your phone, because that's yours. but if you upload photos to iCloud, onto OUR servers, then we reserve the right to scan for images in CP database.."

And I think most people will be perfectly fine with that idea.

Just like you sign away some rights and accept risk when you decide to store items in physical storage facility, same thing will happen when you use iCloud.

There's surprisingly high backlash on /r/apple

You’re not seeing the backlash yet because normies don’t pay attention to Apple outside of the September iPhone event (when coverage breaks into the mainstream for a few days).

Look at Google trends data for the search term “Apple.” It spikes every September by like 70% for a week.

I can guarantee you, every average joe learning about the new iPhone from mainstream media, is going to hear a sound byte about this fiasco as well.

I’ll be surprised if this program isn’t dead within 2 months.

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