Comment by Forgeties79
3 days ago
> Extremely depraved things are not the only thing to use freedom of speech for
I’m not a fan of “think of the children“ arguments but the Internet cannot actually be a complete free for all and “freedom of speech” is not some magic shield that overrides all other ethical considerations. CSAM is not a particularly high bar and frankly if you want people to throw in with you then you can’t brush it off so lightly.
> I’m not a fan of “think of the children“ arguments
Yet you're making one.
> the Internet cannot actually be a complete free for all
Yet in many important ways, it is.
As much as publishers would like to shut down Scihub, it exists. The Pirate Bay famously persists. Nation states with entirely opposed legal systems connect and interoperate to at least some degree.
Scihub and The Pirate Bay are not at all anonymous, aggressively police for CSAM, and rely on reputation systems.
North Korean Internet will solve ip4 address exhaustion.
Dude it’s CSAM what are we even doing here.
What's CSAM? All of Freenet? Doubtful.
The OP said: "Extremely depraved things are not the only thing to use freedom of speech for, and freely speaking can result in all kinds of repressions."
Which is objectively true.
You're throwing reporters, political dissidents, whistleblowers, minority groups, and just regular people who don't appreciate the Stasi in with the child pornographers which some might take as an insult and offense.
What kind of criminal does Phil Zimmermann look like to you? We had this argument already in the 90s.