Reminder that they can take down CSAM peddlers faster & more thoroughly than they took down RT & they deliberately choose not to.

@Nike Big giant company, known address, known domain, clearnet DNS, actual legal entity

Vs.

None of that

@applejack >The most sophisticated global surveillance system can't prevent access to illicit materials posted on some of the internet's most trafficked websites

There's no way you actually believe this.

@Nike >What's an onion routing? Like onion rings?

@applejack
No dude, Im talking normal web here. Shit gets posted & shared on mainstream websites. It could all be dealt with, and they don't even bother.

@Nike Because it's 1000000000000 different people doing it and they generally get arrested or do use proxying

Like I said, it's not a centralised entity, it's doesn't have a constant known location, it's already illegal but evades it, and they already put resources into it. Shit like this:
cloudflare (powers most of the internet) https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-csam-scanning-tool/
>Today we're proud to take a step to help deal with those hard cases. Beginning today, every Cloudflare customer can login to their dashboard and enable access to the CSAM Scanning Tool

microsoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
>It is used on Microsoft's own services including Bing and OneDrive,[4] as well as by Google's Gmail, Twitter,[5] Facebook,[6] Adobe Systems,[7] Reddit,[8] Discord[9] and the NCMEC,[10] to whom Microsoft donated the technology.

Being able to add a URL to some DB and RT stops working isn't comparable