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0 pointsfiglett2y ago0 comments

Well, paedophiles hijacking leftist movements for their own ends is a known problem, it's happened before and it will happen again. One particularly infamous instance occurred in the UK back in the 1970s:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/02/how-paedoph...

So if there are indeed some right-wing groups talking about this, maybe it's best not to brush off their claims without some scrutiny first. And I say this as someone who mostly agrees with the left on most things.

Anyway I don't think that any of this has much to do with Apple being asked to implement specific technical measures for detecting child abuse imagery.

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formerly_proven2y ago

> So if there are indeed some right-wing groups talking about this, maybe it's best not to brush off their claims without some scrutiny first. And I say this as someone who mostly agrees with the left on most things.

Figlet indeed.

> figlett 5 months ago [flagged] [dead] | parent | context | prev [–] | on: Florida courts could take 'emergency' custody of k...

> This is excellent news for children at risk of being abused by militant transgenders and the medical establishment who are enabling them. Thank you Florida for trying to put an end to this menace.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35029166

figlettOP2y ago

Exactly, this is one area where the political left, particularly in the US, are failing terribly on child safety.

I'm in the UK and we're doing better here though, the main left-wing party is backing away from the particular ideology that has enabled this. I was going to vote for them anyway as we desperately need our public services to be restored and welfare for those less fortunate in society to be improved, but I'm pleased they're moving towards a sensible, harm-reducing stance on this issue rather than assuming everything the gender activists say is reasonable.

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