Apple Clarifies Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in iCloud Photos

Re:Apple Clarifies Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in i... by BLKNSLVR on Friday September 01, 2023 @06:50PM (#37356970)

> Since becoming an abuser is a process and not a moment, part of the solution must be making access to CSAM much harder.

In my opinion CSAM is a symptom, not a cause.

It's difficult to "stumble across" that kind of material unless you're already actively looking for it, which means some amount of "damage" is already done.

I also highly doubt that someone with no proclivities in that direction would 'turn' as a result of stumbling across CSAM. I'd guess they'd go the other way and be increasingly horrified by it.

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Re:Apple Clarifies Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in i... by tstrimple on Friday September 01, 2023 @08:25PM (#37357519)

> It's difficult to "stumble across" that kind of material unless you're already actively looking for it

It's entirely likely that borderline cases (15-17 years old) are seen by millions of people without them realizing it. Pornhub is a popular "mainstream" porn website that has issues with CSAM and routinely removes it when found. It's entirely possible for "normal" consumers of pornographic material to stumble into CSAM in places like that unknowingly. When you're talking about obviously prepubescent children, I'm in full agreement that it's almost always restricted to folks who seek it out explicitly.

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