If most are reuploads anyway that kills the whole argument that deleting things works though.

Way ahead of them. I just buy stuff from other websites now without Amazon or AI involvement.

Who said anything about punishing the people hosting the sites. I was talking about punishing the people uploading and producing the content. The ones doing the part that is orders of magnitude worse than anything else about this.

I am not talking about CSA, I am talking about video material of CSA. Most countries with marriage ages that low have much more wide-spread bans on videos including sex of any kind.

As for prosecution, yes, it is still illegal if it is not prosecuted. There are many reasons not to prosecute something ranging all the way from resource and other means related concerns to intentionally turning a blind eye and only a small minority of them would lead that country to actively sabotage a major international investigation, especially after the trade-offs are considered (such as loss of international reputation by refusing to cooperate).

Whatever you think it does it certainly doesn’t get rid of SMTP, IMAP, RFC822, Quoted Printable and half a dozen other encodings only used in email, MIME/Multipart, email addresses that require 8000 character regular expressions to get anywhere close to validating the full spec, the ability to send mails to anyone by anyone or anything else I was talking about.

Cookie banners are completely unnecessary as long as websites only use cookies for technically necessary purposes (e.g. login). The problem is that a lot of websites want to sell your data to hundreds or thousands of other companies. So yeah, we could cut back a lot of red tape there if we just outright banned that sale of data completely.

My point was more that we could get rid of the major downsides of email, namely the underspecified legacy technologies and the ability for anyone to send you one, for the vast majority of current applications.

So you are saying it is too creative for the average person in marketing?

Might be time for a rewrite in something more modern anyway.

That dialog sounds like the AI version of the typical unhelpful FAQ page that answers the questions the company wants to answer instead of the ones that are actually frequently asked. In that situation I mentally tend to pronounce it as Fa-Q (fuck you) page.

Honestly, if the existing victims have to deal with a few more people masturbating to the existing video material and in exchange it leads to fewer future victims it might be worth the trade-off but it is certainly not an easy choice to make.

Which countries do you have in mind where videos of sexual child abuse are legal?

Does it feel odd to anyone else that a platform for something this universally condemned in any jurisdiction can operate for 4 years, with a catchy name clearly thought up by a marketing person, its own payment system and nearly six figure number of videos? I mean even if we assume that some of those 4 years were intentional to allow law enforcement to catch as many perpetrators as possible this feels too similar to fully legal operations in scope.

Rate limiting in itself requires resources that are not always available. For one thing you can only rate limit individuals you can identify so you need to keep data about past requests in memory and attach counters to them and even then that won’t help if the requests come from IPs that are easily changed.

Yeah, the problem with enshittification is not that it is something that some companies do but that all companies are heavily incentivized to do under a lot of circumstances (enough that circumstances will come up for practically any company regularly).

Plus security is one of those if everything goes right “what are we paying you for” and if something goes wrong “what are we paying you for” parts of the business.

Also politicians should just permanently be ineligible as office holders if they bring up crypto war topics again. Like adding backdoors to cryptography “just for the good guys”. People that stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the laws of nature just don’t deserve the right to be voted into office.

Agreed. Even human translations are usually crap 99% of the time if they are done as pure surface level translations without having someone who understands the original in depth essentially rewrite it in the target language.

I keep wondering lately if email isn’t borderline useless for a lot of people anyway when it comes to communication with actual people (specifically outside of a business context).

Aren’t many of the legitimate emails we receive today from systems where we already have an account and could be replaced by some sort of system of web hooks with service specific auth tokens? Potentially the messages there could be partially machine readable too (e.g. JSON) since most fall into similar categories (invoices, delivery announcements, password resets, calendar invites and/or reminders, bank account or other payment provider transactions or transaction logs for entire months, notifications about direct messages or other events received on some web application or game,…). This might also make it easier to process these automatically (e.g. let the user tell the system to automatically save all bank statements to a specific hard drive folder instead of manually logging in to download them each month after a reminder mail).

Both in English and my native German. I probably do have an accent in English but that is difficult to judge myself. Certainly nothing that prevents other people from understanding me though.