Telegram repeatedly refuses to join child protection schemes (opens in new tab)

Here's a cartoon I found years ago that says it better than a thousand words. I posted it like a half dozen times, and it keeps being spot on.

https://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/control-of-i...

I guess when you label your mendacious, snooping, encryption-breaking, backdoor sneak schemes created for the sake of easier mass surveillance as "child protection measures", moral alchemy turns them into wholesome good programs that only monsters would object to.

Note that only US-companies are required by (US, I guess) law to join these programs.

Also note this part:

> IWF said that the company did remove CSAM once material was confirmed but said it was slower and less responsive to day-to-day requests.

So in the end Telegram removed the content.

I think it would be better if Telegram used the hash lists, however I think that they should use manual review and not remove content automatically, because this is an US platform that theoretically can be misused to remove legal content that US govt doesn't like.

Easiest thing is to say that you are protecting children. End to end encryption is that technology which ensures that when your wife sends you the shopping list on WhatsApp, tavarish militsiyan cannot eavesdrop and see that you ran out of toilet paper and liquid soap. But they must see! What if you accidentally dropped some pedoporno on that list? It's for kids protection!

So with this attack on Telegram encryption, definitely EU didn't wanna see what political opponents are doing or who's organizing what protest so they undermine it before it happens. We're just hunting pedophiles, what's your problem?

From the french gov's perspective, telegram is a worldwide web of underground tunnels that are inaccessible to the gov. And the gov, being a paranoidal control-freak, gets really upset when you're hiding something from it.

> Another norm that Telegram does not conform to in the usual way

Seems beyond a "norm" if your CEO is jailed for not "conforming"

Backdooring a social media platform to undermine encryption "in the name of children"... It's for child safety alone. Sure. ::insert eye roll::

Hot take: the way to end CSAM (childhoods sexual abusing MPEGs (motion picture expert group) ) aka CP (childhood predator images) for those whom don't know the acronyms -- it is to legalize (((AI generatrated))) CSAM. No child harmed. As we see the internet is already full of AI slop, there can be no question that an infinite amount of CSAMslop may be generated. The reason why this is good, is because anyone looking to profit or market REAL such material, now there is no longer a market to sell it, nor is there a market for giving it for free to get some sort of fucked up pedo kudos. For people who are actual victims and their data shared, their data is but a drop in a vast ocean.