A nuanced look at a tough issue where, in my opinion, our culture has rather lost its way.
The first and most important takeaway from Kashmir Hill’s excellent article in the New York Times about Mark, the man flagged by Google as a purveyor of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) for taking pictures of his son’s penis and sending them to their family doctor, and who subsequently lost nearly every aspect of his digital life when Google deleted his account, are the tremendous trade-offs entailed in the indiscriminate scanning of users’ cloud data.
It links to an essay on a related topic, and one of the comments there struck me as an excellent encapsulation of where the topic of free speech stands in large segments of our culture:
