• Scott@lem.free.as
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    1 year ago

    Making it illegal only hampers those that follow the law.

    Criminals, by definition, already don’t follow the law.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. When privacy is criminal, only criminals will have privacy.

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      1 year ago

      Thing is, there are a load of people who don’t have the know how, time and/or care to use an alternative. That goes for scum bags sharing child porn, terrorists teaching how to make an easy pipe bomb, journalists reporting on local corruption, people sending flirty sexts to their spouses, activists trying to get a movement going, anti-vax groups, people trying to source dubiously legal and/or ethical drugs/medicines… and so on.

      Banning it in mainstream apps and legal stores makes it harder - and harder to know if you can trust an app (is this niche one I found through pirates-r-us forum really trustworthy) - and easier to spot and target those who use illegal/minority options.

      So I think you would catch and block a load of CSAM, even though obviously not all.