Matthew GreenI wonder who exactly is paying for the ads and what their specific business interests are.
If I was in the adtech or data brokerage industry, I’d sure love these ads. Encryption is bad! Apple is too private. Let’s pass some laws to “protect the children.”
If there’s one thing that makes me deeply suspicious, it’s scrappy child-safety organizations suddenly having huge piles of money to spend on hyper-specific tech focused political pressure campaigns as opposed to, say, children.
Chris Merkel 🐀👨🏼🍳@matthew_d_green you get from there back to the "Hopewell fund" and further back "Arabella Advisors"
Pretty opaque stuff as you work your way back.
Guillaume Rossolini@matthew_d_green I hope that kid was ai generated, for once
Andrew Brandt@matthew_d_green Running into this locally in my #SchoolBoard campaign here in #Boulder. There is an organization made up of the kinds of angry people who constantly start arguments on NextDoor about homelessness. They have organized a ballot measure called "Safe Zones 4 Kids" which literally has nothing to do with kids, but is about forcing the city to criminalize the unhoused population. And now, the proponents of this ballot measure seem to have a ton of money, even though the measure does nothing for child safety, but is literally just about forcing the homeless to constantly move around.
Weasel@andrewbrandt @matthew_d_green
Of COURSE it would never occur to them to think about solving the housing problem.
It is easier to comprehend the thinking of conservatives once you realize that their way of life depends on the existence of an underclass.
JamieGC 🏴 🏳️🌈 🖖@andrewbrandt @[email protected] IRS to look into them, or an investigative reporter?
BentFrame@matthew_d_green it's never about the children. No matter how many times they say it.
Maxim@matthew_d_green You couldn't have posted this at a better time, have a look at this:
@matthew_d_green or anti sex trafficking orgs in general, most of them are fundamentalist Christian or terf fronts whose actual agenda is ending sex work.
Scott Grimmett@matthew_d_green This whole campaign is morally bankrupt. Actual child safety relies on actual child caring, which means properly funding child services. Every Royal Commission (as we have in Australia whenever statutory bodies fail so dismally that even the government of the day is outraged) always comes down to “too few child services workers, underpaid, overworked, under qualified and under supervised”. That is why these arguments against encryption that use children disgust me. Because no one ever suggests spending more on caring for kids. It is as cynical as suggesting that child starvation can be remedied by preventing people from swapping videos of starving children. My state capital is already in the process of forgetting its own contribution to child pornography in the form of a daycare worker who casually molested kids for over a decade, occasionally posting the video online. How did he manage it? He could rely on being unsupervised for long periods of time. At multiple child care centres. Over a decade.
But sure. Let’s break encryption.