Yet more "let's use private companies to get around constitutional limitations" from the left.
The firms, [...] share "hashes," unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it.
The thing with hashes is that it's easy to alter content to have a different hash. Eventually they're going to have to escalate their censorship game beyond such a naive method.
This must be what the White House was talking about with "you should be banned on every platform". They brought it up because it was already in the works.
The next step may be to unify user IDs through OpenID or something like it, and share a "no fly list" for extremist users.
Yet more "let's use private companies to get around constitutional limitations" from the left.
The thing with hashes is that it's easy to alter content to have a different hash. Eventually they're going to have to escalate their censorship game beyond such a naive method.
This must be what the White House was talking about with "you should be banned on every platform". They brought it up because it was already in the works.
The next step may be to unify user IDs through OpenID or something like it, and share a "no fly list" for extremist users.
Didn't they try pushing that shit through Blizzard several years back?
yeah, if memory serves they scuttled it after one of the staff (dev?) that "trusted" it put their info out there and internet happened.
I heard about Microsoft having code that generates hash lists for possible image variants.
Unfortunately it was inevitable that technology created to suppress CP was exposited to persecute enemies.