“Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Other Way”

Re:“Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Oth... by habitue on Saturday November 09, 2019 @05:08PM (#21494743)

Those evil tech companies! What would possibly be the purpose of lumping all tech companies together as if there's some collective criminal guilt tech companies must share. It makes sense for something like cigarette companies or oil companies, since the collective noun is based on the bad thing they share. In the case of "tech"... come on! This describes a huge range of companies with completely different business models. Is MongoDB looking the other way at child abusers? How about Cisco? Is Salesforce?

Sorry for the rant, this is just so careless and sloppy. It's like referring to a specific bad thing that was done as being done by "the media". No, that specific news outlet did that. Not the media as a whole

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Re:“Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Oth... by SpicyLemonZest on Saturday November 09, 2019 @05:18PM (#21494811)

I dunno. Reading through the article, it seems like that really is the thesis - the authors think every company which stores or processes data, which may well be the majority of tech companies, should be scanning it to make sure it doesn't contain illicit material. Their examples of specific companies which aren't doing enough scanning range from search engines to cloud storage to enterprise video conferencing.

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