Yeah, there have been various leaks over the years that trickle out. Supposedly they’ve banned companies from operating in the US for refusal to comply with backdoor demands (Hawei, Kaspersky), some reports of backdoors built right into both Intel & AMD processors, some vague stuff that’s come out about backdoors in Windows, etc. Even when the companies refuse to comply, there’s been reports of US intelligence going into factories or intercepting deliveries to install spy chips into hardware. I recall there was a local ISP provider somewhere in the mid-west that got shut down for refusing to install spy devices in their facilities.

Really a lot of this was confirmed as far back as Snowden. And plenty of whistleblowers and leaks since.

It’s funny, because it’s their government’s version of knockoff spyware, and decades out of date. Western governments get a live feed out of their backdoors.

Yep. And I’m a big supporter. We should use the cleanest methods available as appropriate for each application.

Fuck the cost. The planet is going to be unfit for human habitation in a generation or two, while ecosystems and ocean current collapse kills everything else.

All that matters is if it’s cleaner. Stop ruling out options because they’re not market friendly.

The writer clearly understands that something isn’t adding up with Microsoft’s claims about TPM, but nowhere do they address the accusations that Microsoft plans to use it as DRM (and potentially spying).

Similarly, only supporting certain CPU’s is suspect as hell. Between all this and Recall, it really feels like the driving design focus behind Windows 11 was to build the best spying machine they could.

You don’t understand. The tracking and spying is the entire point of the maneuver. The ‘children are accessing porn’ thing is just a Trojan horse to justify the spying.

As you pointed out, it’s already illegal for them to access it, and parents are legally required to prevent their children from accessing it. But you don’t lock down the entire population, or institute pre-crime surveillance policies, just because some parents are not going to follow the law. You then charge the guilty parents after the offense.

So since we can’t count on all parents to properly parent their child, we’ll just infantilize the entire population and treat every single person as a child by default.

Yeah. Again, I’m familiar with this ‘think of the children!’ line of support for fascism.

And just as a totally coincidental side effect, the censoring tech will allow the government greater tracking of everyone.

‘Skip the effective & responsible methods. What’s left?!’

Just astoundingly stupid.

Because it’s a Trojan horse. They’re using porn as justification for increased monitoring for everyone who uses the web, and controlling what they’re allowed to see.

Literally no one but you is arguing about minors accessing porn.

Yes, I am familiar with the ‘think of the children!’ Trojan horse tactic.

The fascist censorship regime is just ramping up their efforts in Europe. The Nazis took over again.

I’m not a fan of intellectual property law. I’m down to abandon it, once we establish an artist stipend to pay a regular salary for artists to live a life of dignity.

Maybe introduce a tax on AI to pay for it.

I’m not saying there aren’t great teachers, but I have family in education and know a lot of teachers, and I would not describe most of them as adaptable.

I think doing nothing, while this emerging tech obliterates the functioning of existing methods, is much more dangerous.

We’ve been needing to rework education for years now anyway. At least this will force the teachers to change & adapt, whether they like it or not.

You’re pulling this out of your ass. That is completely made up.

Yes, we should outlaw weaponization of AI. I would support that.

We don’t outlaw knives. But we punish their use as a weapon.

Yes, those tools are called ‘weapons.’ Are you implying AI is a weapon?

Yeah, that’s my point.