@mint This project collects hashes, voted on by users. According to the IWF even holding the hashes is illegal... and I don't know about the concept of voting.
@matty@caekislove@mint They're simply authorized by the government to do so. I don't think we can solve this problem in a truly decentralized way. We need a single nonprofit org with a license to do this, running a scraping tool across the whole network.
CP laws aren't there for the benefit of abused children. TPTB sustain their life force off of abused children. They are muggle laws. CP laws are there to be used as a weapon against you. Tech people do this little song and dance about how to carefully handle instances of CP that crop up meanwhile Hunter Biden does what he does and you just open yourself up to further prosecution whenever you bring it up.
State-backed system enjoyer reddit trannies routinely use CP they plant as a pretense to shut down dissent.
Interesting. Basically anything that could create a market from CP material is illegal, even if not CP itself, because it could lead to an increased demand for CP to support that market.
@matty@alex@mint The way the law is written I don't know if it's even legal to transmit HASHES of CP without government permission, since material "that was produced using" CSAM can't be legally transmitted in any way.
I agree. The law should be rewritten to clarify that hash lists are not themselves illegal.
I have also found it strange that certain orgs are allowed to use what is essentially public property, e.g. confiscated CP, through cooperation with the government to monetize proprietary products. Hash lists should be competely unprotected by copyright or any other intellectual property law. Otherwise, the government is just creating monopolies, and ones that only prevent CP for those services rich enough to afford it.
@Humpleupagus@alex@matty@mint It also seems to me that these organizations selling CP-detecting services to social media companies are profiting indirectly from CP in precisely the manner that this law sought to prevent.