• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Eh… the ultimate question, what if it’s a collection of CSAM links?

    Some moderation is fine, especially when it can be shared pretty easily. This isn’t private bookmarks, it’s “private” bookmark collections.

    Edit: For those downvoting, this is the same concept as a private Reddit/facebook community. Just because it’s “invite only” doesn’t mean it’s free from following the rules of the whole site.

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      CSAM is never an excuse to violate everyone’s privacy.

      I hate seeing people implying that it is. It’s no better then Patriot Act B.s that took away privacy in the name of catching terrorists.

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        This once more reminds me of the guy in Sweden who got assaulted by police, in his bed, because an American institution searched through his Yahoo mail and found pictures and videos of him and his 30 year old boyfriend and incorrectly flagged it as CSAM, and then forwarded it to Swedish authorities.

        There was no justice after that. No repercussions for either the Swedish police or the American government, and no damages paid to the guy.

        Could this sort of surveillance stop abuse of minors? Yeah absolutely, but at what cost?

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            Yeah, absolutely. That’s literally what I said. In fact CSAM should come bundled on every single electronic device. Then it won’t be a problem anymore.

            Of course not. My comment was in response to the discussion about companies going through private emails and the like (which I recognise the original post isn’t about, but that’s what this conversation turned into) and how I take issue with that. You might argue that we have no right to privacy when we use products like gmail and whatnot, which would be a fair argument if they didn’t already dominate the market.

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        When those links are hosted on Google servers, publicly available to anyone handed the link to them?… how is that a private space?

        This isn’t reaching into your phone and checking the information you store on it, this is checking links you added and shared with others using their service. They absolutely have the right to check them.

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        The fact that you think “privacy” existed even then is telling. The only thing that changed in that regard with the so-called Patriot BS is whether the gov’t could do it without the guile that otherwise had been SoP for decades. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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      Words used to have meaning, you know. Like, for example, the word “private”.

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        Private has various meanings in various contexts. If I take you to the private booth at a club, does it mean I’m allowed to slap around the waiter? No, of course not because rules still apply in private places hosted by a third party.

        If you want privacy in the context you explicitly mean, you shouldn’t be using anyone else’s hardware to begin with. If you expect any third party company to be fine with posting anything on them, you’re gonna have a bad time.

        For example, how many lemmy instances are fine with you direct linking to piracy torrents?

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          I’d not expect the private booth to have the club’s employee sitting there and waiting for me to do something that is against the rules preemptively.

          We mostly argue about semantics, but in this instance you are trying to excuse some very questionable behaviour by companies by saying something along the lines of “well you better go and live in a forest then”. And I don’t think that’s a good take.

          For example, how many Lemmy instances are fine with you direct linking to piracy torrents?

          Irrelevant, as all content on Lemmy is public in a proper sense of this word.

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            Irrelevant, as all content on Lemmy is public in a proper sense of this word.

            /sigh

            How many file hosting services let you share pirated data, publicly?

            Before you start in on “it’s not the same” it absolutely is. It’s private data, which is being shared through a link publicly. Just like bookmark collections.

            And once that file has been identified as piracy, it is very often fingerprinted and blacklisted from not only that instance, but all instances past, present and future.

            That’s essentially what is going on here.

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              Scary illigal content here

              I guess we test and see whether I get banned.

              Also, it’s not the same. A link to a website is not “pirated content”. A link to a website in a “collection” not shared with anybody is not publicly available pirated content.

              Why would Google preemptively ban a set of characters that does not constitute a slur and is perfectly legal to exist?

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                Why would Google preemptively ban a set of characters that does not constitute a slur and is perfectly legal to exist?

                Because they can? Unless your argument is that a third party site should be forced to allow anything that isn’t illegal, or a slur, I’m not really following your train of thought here.

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                  My point is that you should not excuse big corporations for clearly overstepping their bounds when it comes to moderation (as in “minority report” style moderation).

                  For Google, it would probably be even cheaper to only check URLs in collections that were shared with anybody, at a point the owner attempts to share them. Instead, they preemptively hide them from you, because “this set of characters offends us”.

                  This is something people should be angry about, not find an excuse for.

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                    This is a publicly shared collection, which has been shared with someone.

                    Are you not familiar with how the collection system works?

                    This isn’t your browsers bookmarks being synced between browsers, this is a collection shared among others.

                    You’re literally describing what is more than likely happening in the photo. 🤦🏻‍♂️