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Not at all as you did not apply the quality control to the data as you suggested it needed to have to come to a conclusion.

Also I doubt the content is proliferated through facebook and whatsapp. Perhaps by some careless people and that might lead to further investigations, but the proposal is just extremely inefficient and costs are too high.

> Yes if we ban E2E then it will solve the problem of CSAM

No, because content like CSAM will immediately switch channels and you cannot really ban encryption.

More funding for teachers that can put eyes on the target because child abuse happens in the vicinity of the victim. If you really want an efficient solution, you have to start there instead of putting everyone under suspicion.

The exception is human trafficking and it isn't a crime done by common criminals or lone offenders, it is done by organized criminal gangs in a large scale that can be targeted individually.

I have no obligation to make any suggestion for not wanting my chats surveilled for that matter.

If the Gestapo did have WhatsApp data it would have been severely more powerful. You are correct that I believe the cost is quite high compared to the very low returns of invasions of privacy like this. Which probably amounts to none.

We increased surveillance for decades. And none of this surveillance had any measurable impact on safety. It is just a short sighted proposal and nothing more. We know where and when kids get abused. The abused is almost always in their vicinity. Internet chat surveillance does not help at all.

The distance to representatives does matter a lot. The EU even agrees with the principle of subsidiary policy making.

Some political scientist argue that after the Lisbon treaty the deficit is a myth but I don't think their statements have much merit. They often argue that parliamentary control wouldn't be the only metric that would quantify democracy but fail to give an answer what would compensate this deficiency.

Not only did the treaty get rejected by some states that were allowed to vote on it, the fact that it is too far removed from citizens and their inadequate participation. In fact I would argue the treaty made it even more undemocratic. The influence of Kutcher compared to European individuals is not the only empirical evidence for that.

The parliamentary control is minimal and there is little overarching political discourse beyond the borders of the nation state. Language barriers are strong and that won't change in the foreseeable future. Until then the commission will run the circus.

> Btw, I don't think moderation is hard.

It probably depends on the user base of the platform, but I believe it could be one of the worst jobs in the world. If you like the community and content, great, but the usual employed moderators on large social media platforms probably need regular therapy to distance themselves from all the crap they have to read every day. There is a huge difference if you have to read it because it is your job and when you do it on your own because you are hungry for something tasteless and when you can just leave a spicy reply.

I really would like to meet someone from the other 25%. Just out of curiosity to experience a completely different kind of reasoning.

Perhaps they believe the product would be cheaper with abdicating the feature?

I think it unrealistic to believe that accountability tools work and it is quite crazy to judge people on these metrics.

If management cannot define a sensible output at the end of a work shift, they seem to be overtaxed with their responsibility.

Just quit these companies. Market allows for it and when you do clearly communicate the reason. Also building tools to disrupt the metrics should be easy. Company time of course. If they ask for a high score a dependable worker delivers.

I wish they would name the large retailer. This is valuable information for workers to be informed. It is no libel in this case.

That case is a lesser form of anonymity since the platform knows your identity. With laws like the EU just recently voted for, this can become a problem.

Sure, they may log your IP and your ISP could connect the dots, but it still provides privacy.

Anonymity has a lot of obvious benefits, especially if things get heated up and personal. But the main thing is to stop those regularly demanding consequences for speech, which certainly are not arguing in good faith either.

Yes, there are scammers and bots and a e-commerce platform would need to evaluate identities for transactional purposes. But to discuss ideas? Please more anonymity.

> We should debate idea's not authors

There is a large group of people that is more interested in other people instead of ideas and to evaluate anything they need to check their trust in the person uttering it. I think they simply need different platforms.

Otherwise I 100% agree, there are good behaving anonymous platforms but I don't know if Twitter ever can become one. I would never register with my real name though.

Nobody can be an example of tolerance that has a problem with formal or informal modes of communication. It will never be true or believable.

That is just enabling some pretty bad actors in my opinion who don't even care about minorities. People that do care tend to be very flexible about language use.

Not being tolerant here is a pretty clear sign of close mindedness in reality or just a hint of lacking life experience.

Their arguments are so debased that you can only respond with humor. So I sympathize that some users call her chairman Pao. The screech from Reich is full of contradictions. The truth why someone like Trump can have success is because the talking heads of his opposition are just not good enough. Not too complicated and explains a lot.

Someone who does care for social justice might have difficulties to support Elon Musks power over social media. Not him specifically perhaps, but Billionaires who are indeed pretty safe from politically motivated fallout. But on the other hand it is also kind of self defense at this point to not let people with worse ideas take such positions.

Discord has the same problem as IRC, although the latter at least might have provides logs. But Discord content is not discoverable because it cannot be crawled. A lot of good info is hidden behind a proprietary wall.

Hm, I disagree that any effect has to be political. If so the word seems to have little intrinsic meaning.

What makes everything political? Of course something I do or say can influence others, but it is still not political in the vast majority of instances. Not even non-significantly.

Political action is shaping my environment to my desire. Via compromise or war perhaps. What is your definition of it that it applies to everything?

Not really a fan of exorcism, but it would pose a security risk. The probability it will hit the wrong people is immense to almost certain. Maybe even someone organizing protest within Russia. But random acts against Russian developers is an infantile form of protest in my opinion.

Then you better be a well informed person or otherwise you will quickly become the latter.

Worse, he also provides ammunition for Kremlin propaganda. Which already is easier because people don't trust the press. Which is also understandable because some write a lot of bullshit.

Passwords are safe if you can memorize them. It is not too hard in my opinion. I also think they should always be an option for any kind of auth. Maybe I want to authenticate against a system but I don't want others to know my ID. For that use case a password is the better solution.

Also it is a moving space. Browsers don't accept a single certificate for a site anymore, you also have to have that signed by a CA. You can create such a certificate yourself too, but as of today you will need at least two certificates for browsers to fully accept a TLS secured connection. It hasn't been that long since that rule is in place.

So it isn't only the technicalities of asynchronous encryption, there is also specific behavior of applications that use certificates to prove identities.

True, in this case it is an exception of course. Although in times of social media an audience is easy to be found. Memes are the opium of the people or something like that.

You can still self-host and use external resources to manage network and system security. You would keep full control over the machine this way. Having professionals sensibly partitioning different resources in respective subnets is still one of the most valuable defense mechanisms against many threats.

Good explanation by them, maybe because politico is so adapt at propaganda? It is a good argument to evaluate ethical misbehavior but is not at all applicable in a geopolitical context. Credibility is an important currency in journalism or when would it stop being applied?

It just shows how people have no idea about how transparent they have become. A private guy filming you is so trivial and insignificant compared to surveillance capitalism, it shouldn't even get a mention.

Western media splattered out propaganda about Russia election interference because it was domestically convenient. Propaganda can only be effective if there is a hint of truth. And with publications like politico it might even be more than a hint and very well a source of the distrust people have when it is important.