Re:Apple Clarifies Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in i...
by ben_w on Friday September 01, 2023 @02:19PM
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> jail time, fines they have to pay
Fear of these is the reason for the (maliciously compliant) GDPR popups, and that despite discussion about extra-territoriality and relativity limited capacity-to-websites ratio.
The law and threats of punishment are clearly not hugely significant to anyone involved in the specific topic of this thread regardless; in the UK at least, it's the kind of thing where if someone is lynched for it, the vigilantes have to be extremely stupid (like attacking a paediatrician because they can't tell the difference, which happened) to not get public sympathy.
Fear of these is the reason for the (maliciously compliant) GDPR popups, and that despite discussion about extra-territoriality and relativity limited capacity-to-websites ratio.
The law and threats of punishment are clearly not hugely significant to anyone involved in the specific topic of this thread regardless; in the UK at least, it's the kind of thing where if someone is lynched for it, the vigilantes have to be extremely stupid (like attacking a paediatrician because they can't tell the difference, which happened) to not get public sympathy.