Apple removes references to CSAM  from its child safety webpage
It&#x27;s incredibly disturbing to me how little much of the HN crowd seems to understand how these systems like CSAM actually work.  I&#x27;m not talking about the tech or programming.<p>This is a fast track tool to putting anyone in jail for the most despised crime a person can commit.  The tool has no oversight, no transparency, no counter, no clear your name, no real usage definitions other than relentless spying on the &quot;protect the children&quot; fallacy.<p>Most people don&#x27;t understand how life destroying a false accusation is once the government paperwork is started.  At that point like it or not you are basically considered guilty by all the agents of the governement by default.  Their jobs are to prosecute not eliminate false positives.  Once you have been on their radar your life will never ever be the same.  And since it is CP related you will not even get helpful people willing to touch it with a 10ft pole cause of fear they may be implicated.  CSAM is a dastardly and effective way to establish a totalitarian rule by fear of life in jail, nothing more.