Do these news articles on the same day suggest that politicians are either out of touch with technology, or that removing encryption has little to do with protecting children?
You should surrender your rights because…
CommunismTerrorism- Child Abuse <– You Are Here
Indeed, mass media influence toward giving up your rights is very common, especially in democracies. (Ironically, these are often the same rights that are necessary for a healthy democracy.) It has been going on since long before I was born. See also: propaganda, engineering of consent.
If you wanna protect children, you restrict their access to the internet in the first place. Good parenting and restricted access to technology is the way to go.
We need more encryption and less MacBooks at school for 8 year olds.
Tech and social media literacy would also go a long way. If they know how to use services and systems properly and securely, how to avoid dangers.
MacBooks actually have great parenting controls.
Fuck Chromebook though
yes!
If you’re familiar with the phrase never waste an emergency. That’s how a lot of politics work.
You have a pre-existing agenda, and you’re waiting for opportunities to frame it publicly where people can’t fight you.
Some attack on the country, some big controversy in the media, or the good old think of the children.
As with most laws, the title is only a suggestion, the rules of the law are what matter…
At this point I treat every article and ruling that have anything to do with “the children” as being done with an ulterior motive.
So far that’s been the case every single time.
It can be compared and added to the argument of an European country which proposes to scan all photos sent to detect if it contains illegal children photos.
However, to do so, is a huge privacy issue, and as the ai has a very high risk to not work as expected, a lot of false positives could be sent to be reviewed by a person.
It also makes it easy to plant evidence which will not be questioned and which leads to an automatic lynching process.
