Comment by zepto
4 years ago
This isn’t a government demand. This is something the public cares deeply about, and Apple is solving it their own way.
Public opinion is not in favor of giving safe harbor to pedophiles and child pornographers, and I can’t see why anyone would even want Apple to fight that battle.
Not sure where you got that information. I haven't seen any official announcements, so I assumed based on it being US-only and rolled out with no fanfare (except critical press stories citing unnamed sources) that it's something the FBI asked for.
Not sure where you got that - seems like you’ve just made up an explanation that it’s an FBI demand out of whole cloth.
What we do know is that it is a proprietary solution using a proprietary hash which only applies to Apple products and that Apple has always presented themselves as a family friendly company that doesn’t support criminal use cases.
Everything points to this being something Apple thinks needs to be solved before the public asks why they haven’t.
If it was a government demand, we’d presumably see Google responding to it too.
You still haven’t explained why not working to deter pedophiles and child pornographers, is an important battle for them to fight.
They might think it’s a problem they want to solve on their own terms, and that would seem to be what they have done here.
Not solving a problem people care about just because the government also cares about it seems illogical. I think a lot of people like the idea of corporations taking responsibility for the social problems they cause without needing to be forced to do so by the government.