billforJury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/tech/meta-new-mexico-trial-jury-deliberation
Another poster child for Meta's lobbying (bribery) to encourage OS level age verification. (numerous recent references in HN posts)
They very much want to push this liability off onto someone else...
As far as end-to-end encryption, on SM sites (social media or SadoMasochism, however you want to read it) I don't really see the need.
You were downvoted, but right. Meta wants to be able to say, "hey, the OS said she was 18!" and not get in trouble for it.
Online child exploitation should be a strict liability offense.
How does this apply to, say, Signal?
That's why Signal requires a phone number. You can't talk to people you don't know because complete strangers don't give you their phone number. And if you do spam random numbers, they'll report you to the police and you can be tracked down based on your identifier, which still doesn't leak the chats between you and people you actually know.
No.. it doesn't. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-identifiers/
