Thread by @BriannaWu

1/ RE: Apple’s plan to scan every photo in iMessage with machine learning and alert parents to nudity.

I think a lot of well-meaning Silicon Valley people don’t understand what life is like in the Religious Right South.

Let me share so you can imagine how it will be misused.

2/ I have a family member who enacted total lockdown on *everything* her child read.

So when her child would go to the library to check out books, upon returning home she would pass them to my family member.

She would then research *every single* book online and clear it.

3/ Any discussion of sex, certainly any discussion of homosexuality, anything promoting a secular worldview would be censored.

If you don’t think parents like that are going to change their child’s age in iCloud to create a permanent surveillance state, you’re just wrong.

4/ I get that you are a good parent. I get that you would accept your child if they came out as gay.

You’re thinking about yourself.

I’m thinking about the children with parents who will beat the hell out of them and disown them for even looking at homoerotic imagery.

5/ Generally speaking, over the history of technology we’ve had a very very poor record of asking ourselves how the things we build will be misused.

I think many of you are minimizing the dangers of this technology.