Why you shouldn't use Gmail if you are kinky

[Primalex]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/08/google-scans-users-email-finds-child-porn.html

And as a side note - "a visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture or painting" can be child porn, so there is a fair chance that if you ever send a manga picture to someone via email, you end up as registered sex offender, if you use Gmail for it.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Mhm, it's the problem with a motto like "Don't be evil" - we don't all agree about about what constitutes evil.
Might be risky for art students and tourists visiting Brussels too, with that definition.

 

[Primalex]

The problem is that the blatant evil is used as a gateway and once something is established as normal, like scanning your emails for objectionable content, it's simple to extend it - child porn images, child porn stories, daddy daughter roleplay...

 

[IrisAlthea]

The problem is that the blatant evil is used as a gateway and once something is established as normal, like scanning your emails for objectionable content, it's simple to extend it - child porn images, child porn stories, daddy daughter roleplay...

And anyone who protests gets told that they must really want to promote the blatant evil or just gets to hear that if you don't have anything to hide, there's no problem.

The thing about google, is that even when you are aware that it's essentially autostasi, it's still so fucking useful you keep using it.
I' conflicted enough about this to use the general you in a way that I normaly stay away from.

 

[ThorkelGriersen]

"It's only metadata."
"We kill people based on metadata:" General Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA
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Georgetown University Law Center professor David Cole:

"When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment 'absolutely correct,' and raised him one, asserting, ‘We kill people based on metadata.’” http://on.rt.com/wspdah



http://youtu.be/kV2HDM86XgI

 

[lilmissclee]

Thanks

Well I guess I'll be getting a new email address... Thanks for the warning!

 

[Iceprincess12]

Good to know