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SiempreViernesyesterday at 10:47 PM1 replyview on HN

But ProtectEU stuff is about organised crime, terrorism, cybersecurity, and countering Russian sabotage operations, not sure why you brought up CSAM.


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AnthonyMousetoday at 3:18 AM

Who do you think is doing the CSAM? It's the criminal organizations and the terrorists and the Russian hackers, obviously.

Nobody really cares what the excuse du jour is because everybody knows that's what it is. Authoritarians want to build a censorship apparatus to use against the public, but if they say "we want to spy on our political opponents and censor people who disagree with us" then nobody would support it, so instead they say "we have to get the pedos and Putin" even though that's 0.5% of what a system like this would actually be used for if implemented.

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