Matthew GreenJan 18, 2023
Ok a more serious comment about the UK Online Safety bill. Back in summer of 2021, when Apple proposed to build client-side “content scanning” into iPhones, Alex Stamos and I worried publicly that some countries would use it for purposes far beyond child abuse imagery. And here in 2023 we now have examples.
Show threadAllan Svelmøe Hansen
@matthew_d_green It's "funny" (not ha-ha funny, but isn't that strange funny) - that the 'slippery slope' argument is considered a fallacy, yet so very often seems to actually be true when it comes to stuff like these things. It's like a competition to implement the most dystopian version of the world.
Jan 18, 2023 at 12:58pmWeb
Show threadNot a Spring OnionJan 18, 2023

@svelmoe @matthew_d_green It is not a fallacy when it's an agenda.

Of course content scanning will be used to censor inconvenient truths. And to hide critical voices.

Full automated, invisible censorship is way too "good" not to use it.