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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tokyo_0@mas.to ("Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)") wrote:
Of course CSAM is wrong and shouldn't be shared here or anywhere. But when someone says they're pursuing an agenda with the aim of controlling content broadly irrespective of whether that content is violating law in the location where it's being hosted, and uses these kinds of strong-arm tactics to do it, it's worth paying attention. Handing off moderation tasks to a centralised provider isn't what a federated system is about. And "but the kiddies" is long, long abused rallying cry.
![[T]he greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property-justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people-was not exacted from them. - George Henry Thomas, Virginian, reporting to General Ulysses S. Grant, November 1868](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/110/770/615/188/553/175/original/779aeca82e64bf6b.jpeg){kind=link}
