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U.K. Government Finally Admits It Can't Scan for Child Porn Without Violating Everybody's Privacy
Reason ^ | 9.6.2023 | Scott Shackford

Posted on 09/07/2023 2:44:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 09/07/2023 2:44:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Anyone who likes child porn is a disgusting excuse for a human being.


2 posted on 09/07/2023 2:47:44 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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Why would their own personal hard drives violate anyone’s privacy?


3 posted on 09/07/2023 2:49:06 PM PDT by eyeamok
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Just do a house to house search for Pron, guns and drugs. It’ll be fine.

Just gotta repeal that fourth amendment thingee 🤣


4 posted on 09/07/2023 2:50:07 PM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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I think we all agree on that. I don’t think that’s the issue here, though. The UK, Canada and other parts of western civilization don’t have the US constitution to protect individuals. If they can convince the people “enough” that a certain issue is an exception, they can violate rights all over the place.


5 posted on 09/07/2023 2:51:37 PM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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“think of the children” is always the excuse for commies


6 posted on 09/07/2023 2:54:09 PM PDT by Rattlesnake_Snook
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It was never really about child porn. That was just the excuse.


7 posted on 09/07/2023 3:01:14 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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“Using the justification of fighting the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM)”

Must be FAR WORSE than I thought in the UK, if they already have an acronym for it.


8 posted on 09/07/2023 3:01:42 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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I’m wary of making the possession of anything a crime.

Even Microsoft can’t guarantee I don’t have a virus on my PC.


9 posted on 09/07/2023 3:05:12 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Since when does the British government give a 💩 about violating people's rights?

The real reason is probably they don't want the public to find out about their politician's viewing habits.

10 posted on 09/07/2023 3:12:26 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America)
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I suspect both President Biden and Chief Justice Roberts are being controlled based on laws meant to protect children.

We should not allow government to be highjacked on the basis of protecting children. Laws that protect a child should have a statute of limitations that ends at the child’s 19th birthday. All other laws except murder should have at most a 10-year statute of limitations.


11 posted on 09/07/2023 3:12:45 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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The important bit...

...The acknowledgment is a cheap consolation prize given that U.K. lawmakers are about to pass a privacy-violating, speech-suppressing, authoritarian bill...

12 posted on 09/07/2023 3:15:28 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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The leftists are grooming children in schools many of us are forced to support and the leftists are complaining about mere images instead of children’s physical beings!


13 posted on 09/07/2023 3:16:12 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137/stages

Link to the 70 page bill above.

Pay particular attention to Clause 39.


14 posted on 09/07/2023 3:19:21 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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New York State can find out the females that got money from Epstein’s estate.

New York State can compile a mug book of contemporaneous photos of people known to have visited Epstein’s residences.

The females can be asked by New York’s child protective services to describe their victimizers and then to point out any victimizers in the mug book.


15 posted on 09/07/2023 3:21:18 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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"The U.K. government finally acknowledges that a component of the Online Safety Bill that would force tech companies to scan data and messages for child porn images can't be implemented without violating the privacy rights of all internet users and undermining the data encryption tools that keep our information safe."

If any government states they are worried about privacy concerns, it most likely means they are actually worried about the exposure of government officials.

16 posted on 09/07/2023 3:24:54 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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I’m looking a mind-boggling 260-page bill:

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-03/0220/220220.pdf


17 posted on 09/07/2023 3:32:07 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“Evidence of the abuse was first noted in the early 1990s, when care home managers investigated reports that children in their care were being picked up by taxi drivers”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal

“In August 2014 the Jay report concluded that an estimated 1,400 children had been sexually abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, predominantly by British-Pakistani men. Confirmed victims of the abuse in Rotherham were predominantly white. It is speculated that British Asian girls might not have come forward due to social isolation and fear of dishonour. A “common thread” was that taxi drivers had been picking the children up for sex from care homes and schools. The abuse included gang rape, forcing children to watch rape, dousing them with petrol and threatening to set them on fire, threatening to rape their mothers and younger sisters, as well as trafficking them to other towns.”


18 posted on 09/07/2023 3:35:22 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“I think we all agree on that. I don’t think that’s the issue here, though. The UK, Canada and other parts of western civilization don’t have the US constitution to protect individuals. If they can convince the people “enough” that a certain issue is an exception, they can violate rights all over the place.”

Of course we all agree on that particular topic. But something to remember is that there are a whole bunch out there who feel that anyone who believes in God or supports Trump “are disgusting human beings”. And they are now the majority. Do we really want to hand them the legal power to use this against us in the same manner?

We really do need to be cautious what we ask for, What privacy violations we support now can and will be used against us in a court of law later. And it will not be selective or applied rationally.


19 posted on 09/07/2023 3:35:42 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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I’m sure it is possible for me to type something that would have government agents at my door within hours.

It took about five minutes before Notepad would load complete documents on my computer this morning.


20 posted on 09/07/2023 3:41:06 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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