alt Hacker NewsRegardless of how you feel about content moderation, we are talking about a situation where the government is DEMANDING corporations to implement automated, totalitarian surveillance tools. This is the key factor here.
The next step would be for the government to demand direct access to these tools. Then the government would be able to carry out holocausts against any ethnic group, only 10 times more effectively and inevitably than Hitler did.
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Are you conflating this specific principle with the much wider Online Safety Act? Because, while the latter has certain privacy-undermining elements to it, I'm not sure how asking social media companies to take down content has anything to do with 'surveillance'.
As bad as I think this law is, this isn't demanding any degree of surveillance in the sense that real human beings have their information or activity tracked. This is mandating taking down content, not surveiling anyone.
Every social media site already has a system for removing porn.
> the government is DEMANDING corporations to implement automated, totalitarian surveillance tools
You've got this the wrong way around. These are social media sites.
People are publicly publishing revenge porn, and the government has told sites that if they are requested to take down revenge porn then they have to.
They don't have to monitor, because they are being told of it's existence.