| ▲ | phkamp 2 days ago | |
Danish dude here. We had a number of cases in Denmark over the recent years which pushes this agenda: In addition to the obvious child abuse, there have been a case where video of a high-school girls private sexual activities where spread wildly on asocial media, fake-porn of various public figures and several cases of organized crime using various end-to-end encrypted services. None of the Danish politicians I have communicated with like the ChatControl proposal very much, but there is nothing else on the table, which isn't much worse in terms of privacy invasion, so their only choice is ChatControl or doing nothing. My personal opinion: No human right is absolute, not even the right to life itself. The demands of upholding the civilized society limit all human rights, and this limitation has always included intrusions of privacy in order to solve crimes. I far prefer Dan Geer's proposal (See his black-hat keynote): Companies on the Internet get to choose one of these two business models: A) Common-carrier. Handles all content as opaque data, makes no decisions about what users see. No responsibility for the legality of the content. (= how telephone companies and postal carriers are regulated) B) Information provider: 100% responsible for all content, no matter where they got it from. (= how newspapers are regulated) The current "the algorithm did it" excuse for making illegal material go viral, to maximize profits, is incompatible with a civilized society. I've asked the politicians whey they do not do that and the answers is "We do not want to piss off USA", in recent months that concern seems to be fading. | ||
| ▲ | betaby 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> intrusions of privacy in order to solve crimes ChatControl is about non-criminal activity. | ||
| ▲ | delusional 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> Danish dude here. > phkamp Hey! A lot of my views are heavily informed by your writings. I tend to agree a lot with your view of these things. I personally extend it further by positing that the current democratic crisis, most readily seen in America, is caused by the inability of democracy to solve certain important problems, which I then again posit is at least partially caused by cyberlibertarian obstructionism. That's all just conjecture though. It's nice to see you around here :) | ||