The EU Commission's latest proposal to combat child sexual abuse is disappointingly short-sighted and jeopardises secure encryption. Instead of a simple tightening of penalties, we need better law enforcment and stronger prevention!
Read on: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/new-eu-plans-against-child-abuse-inadequate/
@echo_pbreyer Hmm... She seems to overwhelmingly focus on "content" type policies for "evolving technologies", rather than focusing on someone's "conduct" (i.e. sextortion, harassment), which probably means you're going to wind up getting more broad brush "solutions" which tend to impinge on human rights.
Also, the focus on words like "real or realistic" reminds me a bit of how a few articles about such artificial content included mentioning depictions of "non-existent people", and also, where even the meaning of "realistic" could be variable. Prohibiting possession of such content would also likely be a privacy issue. Someone is not going to typically be evil for the sake of being evil.
This reminds me a lot of the "War on Drugs" where civil rights were routinely violated and a lot of resources were poured into it. Legalizing possession of drugs didn't even lead to what was claimed it would[1]. I also don't think that just locking more and more people up indiscriminately is a sustainable, proportionate, or even effective thing to do.
1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955395923002025
