[admash]

Except that it is not materially false. Only in a perfect society will your “system that flags illicit content” not become a system that flags whatever some authoritarian regime considers threatening, and subverting public logging/auditing is similarly trivial to a motivated authoritarian. All your hypothetical solutions rely on humans, who are notoriously susceptible to being influenced by either money or being beaten with pipes, and on corporations, who are notoriously susceptible to being influenced by things that influence their stock price.

The Pleyel’s corollary to Murphy’s law is that all compromises to individuals’ rights made for the sake of security will eventually be used to further deprive them of those rights.

(I especially liked the line “You can require cops to build multiple sufficient points of independently corroborated evidence before arresting people.”)

[notepad0x90]

This is already the case with other means of communication. the internet isn't that special. If you don't trust your government, do something else about it.

We rely on eye witness testimony and human juries all the time. The innocence project has a long list of people that spent decades in prison because of this.

The solution to authoritarian regimes is to not have one, not tolerate cp on the internet.

[dngray]

> The solution to authoritarian regimes is to not have one, not tolerate cp on the internet.

Perhaps the problem doesn't have a binary solution.