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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just make a law that states, in order to protect the citizenship from the dangers of CSAM, it's illegal to use protocols like this or can't operate in the country. Make a smear campaign to appease public opinion to say that cloudflare is helping hide CSAM sites.

Once this first step is done, the road to stricter filters for any other use is paved

All the filters that are used in Europe to block illegal soccer streams within 30 minutes or to block those dangerous gambling sites (just because they don't pay taxes, not because of actual concern) are all coming from a "we need to find a way to block CSAM", then "we already have the tech, we should apply them also to other stuff"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Already happening: (german article) https://netzpolitik.org/2023/interne-dokumente-europol-will-chatkontrolle-daten-unbegrenzt-sammeln/

tl;dr europol people said they might want to get the scanned (chat) data (proposed in a new set of laws to prevent csa and grooming and find csam) without any limitations on the data and no restrictions on how they can use it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% it would then change "we should also use this for other crimes"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

… that is basically what they said

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

yes, it's because i agreed with that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They can't block or filter it because they can't discern between https requests that do or don't use ECH. Sure they can make it illegal but it would be completely unenforceable.