• southsamurai
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    13116 days ago

    Frankly, good.

    There has yet to be any of these purported “child protection” scams that would do a damn thing for kids, and only invades the privacy of people that have zero reason to be investigated in the first place

    • @[email protected]
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      215 days ago

      They could at least do on-device hash lookups and prevent sending. Has zero effect on privacy and does reduce CSAM.

      • southsamurai
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        1015 days ago

        Yah, that would be a great solution in comparison, but it’s still privacy invasive. Not as bad, but it’s still not giving people due process.

        Which, not everywhere in the world recognizes that principle as a right, I am aware. But I do consider due process a right, and scanning anything on anyone’s devices without a legally justifiable reason is a violation of that.

        I’m not willing to kowtow to a moral panic and just ignore the erosion of privacy “because the children”. And it is a moral panic. As bad as it is, as much as I personally would enjoy five minutes alone with someone that’s making or using kiddie porn of any stripe, it simply isn’t such a common thing that stripping everyone of their privacy, in any way is acceptable.

        They wanna figure out a way to target individuals suspected of that kind of crime, awesome. Untargeted, sweeping invasions simply are not acceptable, and I do not care what the purported reason of the week is; kiddie porn, terrorism, security, stopping drugs, I do not care. I have committed no crime, and refuse to give away the presumption of innocence for myself or anyone else.

    • katy ✨
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      yeah cracking down on the child trafficking networks operating on telegram would totally not do a thing /s

      • southsamurai
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        1315 days ago

        It wouldn’t. Anyone into that shit will just go somewhere else, and the price of that is yet another erosion of privacy.

        • katy ✨
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          yes if you go after people sharing it on the network you make it harder for them to access it. stop defending csam it’s creepy.

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            Look, just because people don’t agree that a specific method will be effective, that doesn’t mean they support it.

            That’s shitty thinking, and even shittier behavior. You should be ashamed of yourself for going there in what was previously a civil, friendly discussion.

  • @[email protected]
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    11316 days ago

    If the programs were anything like this, I don’t blame them. There’s a fine line between child protection and surveillance.

    • Lucy :3
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      316 days ago

      Hmm. I think many services just don’t and can’t participate because they’d need to break E2EE. Telegram wouldn’t with most chats.

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    When the West wants to censor the internet its always either child protection or national security.thats brought up as the reason.

    • @[email protected]
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      1016 days ago

      The west

      Are authoritarian regimes somehow supposed to be more opposed to using children to promote heightened surveillance?

      • @[email protected]
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        1316 days ago

        I mean… Yes?

        They don’t need to lie to sell their oppression. They just do it because they’re authoritarian.

        • @[email protected]
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          016 days ago

          LOL, this is a joke right? Authoritarian countries don’t lie about reasons for doing things? LMAO

          • @[email protected]
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            315 days ago

            Well when Russia blocked Telegram it was just because Telegram refused to send them their users data. Simple. Now France seem to be sentencing a person to live in prison because Telegram still refuses to send them their users data. But they claim it’s for the children. Same shit, different excuse.

            • @[email protected]
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              115 days ago

              Sure, but what the person I replied to is claiming is that e.g. North Korea doesn’t lie to its people about reasons it does things, which is, of course, bullshit.

              • @[email protected]
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                -115 days ago

                They didn’t claim it though.

                They said that all governments do some terrible things but in case of the governments that claim they are not authoritarian they pretext those things with something that will make the public not think they are doing a terrible thing.

                In case of restricting Internet freedom or invading other countries it’s usually “but think of children”.

      • @[email protected]
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        916 days ago

        Authoritarian regimes also do the same, although often with adult consentual porn instead of CSAM.

          • @[email protected]
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            1116 days ago

            Ayo. The country that has

            • a stifling work culture
            • zero tolerance porn laws
            • full blown internet censorship
            • chaebols
            • harsh punishment on even the softest of “drugs”
            • miniscule support for new families

            is definitely not authoritarian.

            It’s okay. With the childbirth rate they have currently, they don’t have to worry for much longer. Let’s just squeeze the last out of the current generations.

      • @[email protected]
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        Authoritian regimes doesnt need to pretend. If they find out you are a risk they don’t need to gather evidence to get you in prison, so they don’t need to pretend they care about censoring the internet for the wrong reasons.

        The issue here is the west want to do the same but need a valid justification. Instead of work to stop the actual abuse in the first place they want access to the only way for many people to share information safely.

        You could be technically letrate and find your way around all the restrictions, but many people are not and they need access to secure communication channels to arrange there activism.

        The fact we don’t see backlash against twitter, Facebook, Google, and Apple tells alot about what is this about.

        The fact we are seeing more support for “consent” for kids, and the fact that there were many major cases such as Epstein and Maxwell which has been obscured or even hidden when it comes to major profilic people says alot about their intent.

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          -215 days ago

          They do need to pretend, because they need assistance from supposedly civilized states in their actions covered by that pretense.

  • @[email protected]
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    Thank you for choosing “Tyranny as a Service!”

    How would you like this wrapped? [ ] Terrorism [X] Child porn

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    If they refused to hand over data that they had about individuals on a warrant, I can see how the arrest was kind of justified.

    If the arrest was for refusing to install a backdoor for law enforcement to spy on anyone they want, then France needs to be kicked out of EU and sanctioned for human rights violations.

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      Systemic racism and religious discrimination persisted, including against Muslim women and girls. Racial profiling continued with impunity. Excessive restrictions on protests and excessive use of force by police continued. Mass protests and unrest followed the killing of a 17-year-old boy of Algerian descent by police at a traffic stop. Racist, xenophobic and anti-LGBTI vandalism and violent attacks were frequently reported.

      Parliament passed highly controversial new laws authorizing the use of mass video surveillance technology by law enforcement and introducing discriminatory immigration, nationality and asylum restrictions.

      https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/europe-and-central-asia/western-central-and-south-eastern-europe/france/report-france/

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        I’m exaggerating, but France should be held accountable.

    • @[email protected]
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      316 days ago

      If there were a good alternative in the sense of public channels that don’t usually get banned, my consent they would get even earlier.

      But the issue is - I don’t even know where to go to discuss shit. Despite TG being full of government trolls.

      • @[email protected]
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        015 days ago

        Despite TG being full of government trolls.

        That’s the world we live in now. If it’s popular it will be full of trolls, government, corporate, all kind. Just somewhat popular, they are here on Lemmy too.

  • @[email protected]
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    2615 days ago

    Did religions joined child protection schemes? Because they are one of the biggest child indoctrination and abuse schemes in the world.

  • @[email protected]
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    Ruling class has been waging war on social media they dont have the ability to backdoor. My guess is they’d come for signal too if they didn’t use it themselves.

    • @[email protected]
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      415 days ago

      The government don’t usually need the text from your conversations, just the metadata who the person talks to, their location, etc. Signal is a US company, they surely provide all that data. It seems Telegram didn’t.

      • @[email protected]
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        215 days ago

        Signal does not. https://signal.org/bigbrother/santa-clara-county/

        Tl;dr: Signal gave the court timestamps for three out of nine phone numbers that the court demanded data on. The timestamps were the dates three phone numbers last registered their accounts with Signal. That’s it. That is all the data there was to give.

        This is why I use Signal. This is why I donate monthly to Signal.

  • @[email protected]
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    “Schemes” it’s as if they know they aren’t actually protecting anyone… Like they would just let anyone torment their children if they claimed religious protections and offered a big enough bribe(I know for a fact that is how it actually works). But sure, telegram is the problem not fed bastards hunting innocent people because the bad people bribed them to leave them alone. Be a 1% or be investigated when you don’t cow toe to the 1%. Your choice apparently.

  • @[email protected]
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    615 days ago

    Did the child protection schemes involve compromising the security of communications on the app?

  • @[email protected]
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    215 days ago

    The BBC contacted Telegram for comment about its refusal to join the child protection schemes and received a response after publication which has been included.

    Where is it? I didn’t find it anywhere in the article.

  • @[email protected]
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    116 days ago

    Fun fact, “child protection” in France includes fictional characters.

    The spying they want to do isn’t even about children who necessarily exist.

  • katy ✨
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    imagine going to jail just because you refused to address the child abuse and csam on your own network.

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        Putin loves Elon (& got him to ruin Xhitter apparently) so no, Elon won’t get arrested

      • katy ✨
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        315 days ago

        meta does get pointed out but not as much since meta actually does things to combat csam.

        twitter gets called out ALL the time mostly because elon himself is intervening to reinstate people who share csam because he firedall the trust and safety teams.

      • @[email protected]
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        215 days ago

        Huh, it’s maybe as if, nooooo… it couldn’t be, the Zuck and Elon are my trusted friends, my confidants, they wouldn’t. They couldn’t. No way in hell they’d sell or otherwise compromise my personal data