@alex Huh … of course everyone wants to stop distribution of child abuse imagery, but you have to wonder about “harmful content” and if it will start to capture random memes Facebook determines to be undesirable.
You can just write software to hold such posts in a queue, because in most jurisdictions, even possession of child abuse images is a strict liability crime.
Also, what if the image hashing gets things wrong and blocks people from uploading a summer beach photo because somehow the hash is similar to a known bad image?
Facebook is already hostile to smaller platform, and it makes me worry that smaller sites that start adopting this technology may be allowing tech overlords to censor their users without their knowledge.
@djsumdog Maybe. But I got rejected from Micro$oft PhotoDNA. Child porn is an existential threat to the Fediverse and we need some way to stop it.
There's no AI solution to Jussie Smollett getting attacked in public and attackers finding the guy's gleasonator.com account
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The internet is, unironically, a series of tubes, that (the senator's actual point:) exist in the real world under control by real people that can be arrested.
@NEETzsche @apropos @alex Parler was knocked out because they’re full of dumb-fucks who trusted Amazon, but Daily Stormer was rejected from every major and minor webhost. They’re back up on a .su domain, but imagine if they didn’t have a backup?
There aren’t that many hosting providers really. And it wouldn’t be too difficult for legislators to say that every hosting provider (from BlueHost to Azure) must meet certain standards. ISPs could block all inbound traffic to residential IPs.
I know it sounds crazy, but look at the fucking world we’re in? We’re full on totalitarian for a virus with a >99% survival rate, governments in free nations are trying to mandate the most experimental drug in modern regulatory history and every basic Internet platform non-tech people know how to use are literally censoring and removing any videos, studies or scientific data showing dangerous/deadly side-effects.
@djsumdog @apropos @alex I know what’s going on and I’m seeing the backlash forming as-is. Biden’s vax mandate got shut down in the Fifth Circuit. Roe v. Wade is on the edge of being overturned. Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges. My State passed constitutional carry and has explicitly banned vax mandates.
I’m actually pretty white pilled today. I don’t think an anti-speech bill under Biden will sail today. I think it’ll face so much undermining behavior that it will effectively just go away.
@apropos I don’t assume that. I think that shitlibs might actually make an attempt on it today, I just think it’ll be ineffectual. Here’s how I imagine it happening:
AOC and blue check Twitter start posting screenshots from the fediverse and demanding that someone “does something” about it. Millions of boomercons and normies flock to “free speech Twitter,” except actually this time, because she’s screenshotting people saying nigger and faggot. They figure out how federation works after the fact.
Meanwhile, the shitlib machine is whirring up to “do something” about the fediverse, but by then the rightist support for it has also whirred up. There’s a massive political battle over this.
I bet they're thinking of the children. But maybe not in the way the meme would suggest.
But I agree with you, most people in congress have no idea how any of this underlying technology works. To quote one corrurpt and insane Alaskan senator, "The Internet is a series of Tubes!"
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Not impossible. But very unlikely. People are just too dumb to hide things.
I mean supposedly the most genius villanous cabal is the jewish one. And they couldn't even figure out how to hid they have nukes hidden in this Dimona place or something. I think they were sold out by one of their own.
Nah. People are too stupid. Trust me I should know, I'm an expert at being stupid.
There's no evil super villanous cabal. Probably just a stand alone complex.