Positive users agree with Meredith Whittaker that the UK's nude image scanning proposal enables government censorship and amounts to mass surveillance.
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Signal boss Meredith Whittaker has been talking to me about this - rejecting the idea of ‘scanning systems’ that purportedly detect nude images. Easily weaponised by governments, she says, for political speech and other content https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-09/uk-s-starmer-to-announce-under-16s-social-media-ban-within-days?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MTA5NTQ2MCwiZXhwIjoxNzgxNzAwMjYwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUR0NSM0tLSzNOWTkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwMTEwMTAyNzBCMEY0QjI2OUM2MDlFREUwNERCMUY1RCJ9.1PpEbA1OZzApBxLMNvHMUKoY2kD30sGHZIIVerV9AvQ
@MishalHusain @mer__edith is right
@MishalHusain @mer__edith Authoritarian governments will weaponize such technology anyway. We live in a liberal democracy with a free press. It can’t be extended beyond the lawful purpose without someone whistleblowing