signal calls out the UK’s idea of content scanning and age verification to protect children, as a horrible idea
signal talks about how children deserve actual protection and not surveillance, cover ups, and funding cuts.
“ The UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned on the presumption of nudity,
using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning, will not safeguard children.
It endangers us all, whilst strengthening Apple, Google, and Microsoft's market dominance and their control over our most personal information.”
They say that giving up your information to be scanned just to do something as simple as communicant is not good for the people
No matter how well meaning those ideas are, they can be expanded into something else and make it into a surveillance state
“We know from history that once in place, there will be an inevitable authoritarian expansion of the kind of content and people these technologies will be expected to surveil.
We also know such tools will be leveraged to automatically report people to government authorities.
We have already seen law enforcement agencies ask for similar widely-scoped powers which are ripe for exploitation in an increasingly tenuous political landscape.”
Signal calls for proper education, good social systems, and actual guard rails that don’t impend on our rights
