Tim Sweeney calls out Apple for what their new anti-CP tool could be used for.
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If scanning for CP is allowed, why would it stop there? The justification is that it's harmful and illegal, but there are a lot of things you can have on your phone that are illegal. Why not scan our documents for threats? Why not scan for plans to blow up buildings? How about check our bank accounts for fraud and embezzlement? Those are all harmful and illegal. Why not check our text messages just in case we're discussing any crimes we may have committed?
I'm not even reductio ad absurdum-ing here. These are all crimes and they're all stored on your phone, thus they fall perfectly in line with the original reasoning. If committing a crime is a valid reason to remove the expectation of privacy, then there is absolutely no reason to believe that wouldn't be applied to all crimes. And there is also no reason to believe that once they have that power, they won't change the definition of "crime" to conveniently dispose of dissidents, as they are doing right now as we speak.
"The slippery slope is a fallacy" is one of the more harmful lies the west believes.
It's only a fallacy when someone can't explain how to get from step A to Z, however in your case the rest of your post are those other 24 steps and how you get to the next one which disproves the fallacy.
Of course npcs bleeting "slippery slope fallacy" either won't understand this or just not listen anyway so it's often a pointless argument in the first place despite being fairly easy to explain.
Their algorithms could probably detect banned works, so I can expect south korea to be using similar technologies to enforce their infamous actively enforced loli ban alongside their general porn ban.
People are going to get angry when they discover the anti CP hash list they where using for their site contains hashes for loli/shota/cub and works banned for violating regressive style hate speech laws, only to get rebuffed or even raided when they demand a list that exclusively contains hashes related to CP.
The fallacy of the 'Slippery slope fallacy'. (Not j/k)
Why stop at phones. Someone has a clip of a show downloaded, call the media piracy on em.
This is a failure of Silicon Valley to know anything about how the world works.
In the Middle East- punishment for criticizing <censored historical figure> is to be sentenced to crucifixion.
By contrast- punishment for child abuse is <checks notes> to be asked to marry the child.
They clearly care more about you using your iphone to say bad things about religion. Their courts will demand you expand the surveillance.
This will create a permanent record and risk of death sentence whenever you travel using an iphone
Irony of a take from a guy spitroasted by CCP cock.
The CCP doesn't even have any members on their board. Epic is fucked, but Sweeney is still somewhat good. He's more chucked by half his employees being commies than by the CCP.
Sweeney admitted in court that he wants special treatment to fleece money from people with his games without paying the storefront cut, and that's his entire beef with both Steam and Apple, leading to the EGS and the recent lawsuit. Not the principle, but that he didn't get privileged.
He says things to make you think he is good so he looks like the underdog against these faceless corporations he keeps barking at. But he is no better than any.
Maybe I'm just comparing him to other company heads I've worked for at game companies, and he's the best of any large corporate heads. Low bar, but still worth acknowledging in my book.
You can be good in some respects and bad in others. One of my old bosses was one of the best men you'd ever meet off the clock and an absolute monster on it.
In this case, most of us only deal with Sweeney the man effecting the industry, not the boss of our company.
Lets discuss the database apple AI would use to recognize cp.
Ah yes, the guy who just had a huge lawsuit with Apple over his demands that allow him to circumvent their monetary system is totally an unbiased source and should be commenting on it. Including numerous leaked documents of manipulating people with emotional language to take his side.
Apple is 100% in the wrong here but he has no ground to stand on calling them out.
Such an unreasonable expectation ... to be allowed to do business with a customer without Apple getting their percentage.
And before you spout the "special treatment" bullshit, yeah, he tried to negotiate with Apple for what he thought was reasonable treatment. Apple won't negotiate, so the courts get involved. If I were in his position, I'd try to strong arm Apple into a better position for myself as well. I see nothing wrong or hypocritical here.
You should actually read the trial itself then. Because the hypocritical part was him attempting to rally people as if it was the principle of the matter and we should all support him destroying a monopoly. When he then admitted if they gave him special treatment he gave no shits about anyone but himself. You know, like he did with Sony.
Its not that what he is saying is wrong, its that he is a very unreliable and biased source who has admitted to manipulating the public, from his own leaked internal documents, to benefit himself by saying things like this.
Aren't you the person who said feminist scum should be supported when they go against forced vaccines?
Why is Epic too far, but literal genocidal freaks are okay?
I have literally no idea what you are even referring to what that first question. Its possible, as my memory is shaky on the best days, but I doubt that what was said matches your reading of it. Considering I've been an anti-feminist longer than you've been alive, its even more bizarre an accusation. Try not to use your default J'Accuse! on the only person here most misogynistic than you are.
The stance here is, I never support grifting and try to make it a point to try and always call out when people in these subs are being pandered to as they rush to yell "OMG BASED" for someone who is neither. Its simp level desperation for someone to validate your opinion.
But good job pulling a classic feminist of creating an accusation from thin air, then answering yourself and then trying to poison the well with it. Its almost impressive how well you emulated them I'd think it was on purpose.
Why do we pretend they actually care? Even when they face actual pedophiles actually raping children, they do nothing. So you think they care enough to comb through your phone for real to look for signs?
Like honestly, the executives of big tech and such are part of the horrific inner circle. They will want to send YOU to prison for looking at porn with girls who "look young" but are perfectly legal, but they party with Current Year Epstein and probably use his "services".
Why does any idiot still trust them?
I think this will make it so the child predators will be hidden automatically and undetectable. I do not think this will benefit children, but will instead benefit the predators in a twisted way. None of these big companies actually gives a shit about children. They are constantly protecting pedis though. I don't trust 'em.
Will be. If it isn't already.
Remember, they usually only admit things after the fact.