An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by syshum on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:55AM (#28087994)

That is because you are incorrectly using the the charge of the Slippery slope fallacy to hand wave away legitimate concerns by reducing them to an absurdity which is itself a logical fallacy

The legitimate concerns here are not a slippery slop, they are real and self evidence born from countless examples through out history of these types of survelence systems being abused. EFF points to a coulple, other artiles point to other examples

It takes a person an extremely dense person (or intellectually dishonest) to simply hand wave all of these concerns away as "well that is just a slippery slope so I can ignore you"

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Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by defaultname on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:01AM (#28088100)

I guess I'm just extremely dense.

I see Apple implement a trivial (laughably trivial) system -- a tiny little pimple on a massive platform of hardware and software -- and I don't think "this is it! This is what puts the surveillance state over the top!", I think "Hey look, trivial, constrained system".

But if you believe that this was what was between a surveillance state or not...well you must be much more intellectually capable than I and I am honored to be in your presence.

It is the very definition of a slippery slope. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but usually you're just walking to the bathroom.

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