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frankluntzPOLLS··on I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory
overwrought melodrama from a partisan hack. will be avoiding wired with twice the religious fervor going forward. pseudo-humanist garbage from a big dope who asked chatgpt to sound "smart" and "like she had a fucking clue" but with a panache for extraordinarily self-indulgent and stupid prose.
frankluntzPOLLS··on Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
hey, you illiterate racist dogshit mongrel https://www.irishpost.com/news/irish-potato-head-mum-asks-ir...
frankluntzPOLLS··on Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud
Thank you for these citations. I'm not a legal expert, but I appreciate the response. I don't know what the correct thing to do for apple or others is, but it seems like apple has far more authority than most people suspect to do things like hash checks and law enforcement notification. The general tenor of most complaints is that this is a violation of first amendment or constitutionally protected privacy rights. But I don't know if that's true, and from your response, it would seem like there is some precedent for corporations being protected in their right to act on crimes they are aware of.
frankluntzPOLLS··on Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud
I think "state actor doctrine" is important here. The above poster wrote: "here Apple is conducting the scans and forwarding the results onto the Government for the purposes of law enforcement." If that were true, Apple would probably lose whatever class action suit was brought by the pedos. But in this case, Apple has every right to ensure that its servers and platforms are not used to disseminate unlawful material. They could always be held liable by victims or the state for failing to curb the kind of activity that is certainly happening today whereby people make icloud folders partially or publicly accessible. How is it different to charge for a subscription to an icloud folder vs a paid substack? Both of these companies share in the responsibility not to allow csam on their platforms.

a private company can always publish terms that grant them on-device or in-cloud access to whatever data they are manipulating or storing or whatever. One could argue that clicking ok on "we can manipulate your data" is legal umbrage for "running a hash search and forwarding material to fbi".

Is "post fib.gov" the new "Sunset Filter"? and can they run that filter automatically?

frankluntzPOLLS··on Launch HN: Kalshi (YC W19) – A regulated exchange for trading on events
Running a bucket shop is not innovation. Running a back-alley card game is not some brilliant new financialization of anything. Hustling financially illiterate or gambling-addicted suckers for their last quarters is really not about to herald a new era of anything interesting at all.

You would have to be a modern American to have so little clue about the types of frauds and scams that continue to be perpetrated to this very day that gave rise to the financial regulations we have now. There's always ways to improve regulation, but it's almost pathological how Americans refuse ever to acknowledge that there could be a huge body of law and volumes of history that might just explain the way things are. RTFM