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Is having perfect privacy worth turning a blind eye to the organized mass rape of children? That’s the choice, no exaggeration.

Considering there’s nearly 8 billion alive, there must be a whole lot of activity at this exact moment. I wonder what the current number of ‘victims in progress’ is. Has to be at least 25,000. Visualize that. Quite the price to pay.

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> Is having perfect privacy worth turning a blind eye to the organized mass rape of children?

No, but I'd like some concrete data before giving up my privacy. If Apple said "we think X thousand kids per day are exploited via iMessage and that's why we're putting these mitigations in place", I'd be willing to make some concessions that are congruent with the scope of the problem. Until then I'm going to be skeptical of any surveillance system being put in place to "protect the children."

What rape had to do with photos? Also this scans messages of people under 13, while child rape happens mostly to people over 17.

That's absolutely not the choice that is up here. In western societies, child abuse predominantly happens within the family and won't likely be solved just by monitoring childrens online communication

The article suggests this "feature" may cause even more harm. How many youth will suffer violence, abuse, homelessness because of Apple's new toy?

The article suggests this "feature" may cause even more harm. How many youth will suffer violence, abuse, homelessness because of it?

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