I can't believe these folks can say "we need to prevent everyone in society from communicating privately to protect children" with a straight face.
What must their employees think to themselves? Seems Stalinist.
What must their employees think to themselves? Seems Stalinist.
The issue is that CSAM is not some sort of nebulous, vague idea. It is pervasive and endemic in online communities and if you have any tool that can facilitate the sharing of images and communication with children by adults then it will, inevitably, be used by paedophiles. This isn't a vague conjecture, it is the truth of the matter.
FB Messenger is specifically a problem because of the ready access it provides adults to children.
Yeah, it kinda does.
Yeah, it kinda does.
So yes, demand reduction will reduce actual instances of rape and sexual abuse - while there is an argument that nonces will nonce regardless, the encouragement and egging on by others is a significant driver of offending.
There is also the matter that mere possession of these images is also a criminal offence.
It makes building detection systems harder, though.
Your intuition points to a typical PR pattern around Meta: employees disagree, and they resolve their frustration in the press. So many big tech scandals are an opportunity to remember the “two wolves inside of you” story.
But like the recent abruptness in states like Texas immediately targeting women for receiving healthcare the second they were able to should give anyone pause. Especially given that a large population wants to reelect an insurrectionist publicly planning a dictatorship.
What about, say, grabbing random people off the streets and administering electric shocks to them while asking them if they've ever abused children?
What about requiring 24/7/365 cameras in everyone's bedroom to make sure they're not raping children in there?
The point here is that there are limits.