Culturally, its because American's won't read a sign and follow the instructions if we can still "do" it. You have to physically block us, and its too expensive to change all the signs.

Many L6 promos over the years went out to folks who could quickly and accurately build WBR decks that gave L8s the visibility they wanted.

So maybe Bezos is the lawyer, and all the directors are accountants.

PRFAQs, COEs, and WBRs.

Who is even surprised at this point?

Problem was, there were races and some bugs, which caused a lot of reconciliation problems for exchanges that listed it.

It dropped after 2017, and AFAIK, is essentially a dead coin.

When I'm in a browser, 99% of the time I expect the page to have what I'm looking for. I rarely care if its interactive. In fact, the more interactive it is, the less enjoyable the experience is. This holds even firmer when I'm on a desktop.

This article would have been way more valuable if distilled into a poignant lesson or insight about why Clubhouse failed.

I'm not an expert in how CSAM works, but if it only as a block list against certain images it will be very ineffective.

The way I would expect it to work, is to recognize the content of images. The SOTA on this is pretty impressive. Knowing the content of the images is what Google does in the cloud, and its great. I can search my images for "Green taxi" and it will find it. Water. Sunsets. Anything.

If apple is introducing the ability to recognize photo content on the device (even if right now it is destined for the cloud as a pre-scan), it doesn't really matter that the model is only tuned to find child abuse, as an example.

Tomorrow, the hyper-parameters or the ontology could be expanded to search for anything. Political affiliations, location and timestamps (this doesn't even need modeling!), illegal objects or substances, etc.

The deal is that Apple is saying "we are going to use your device to determine what is in your pictures." The circumstances and scope of those determinations can change, but the expectation that Apple will be doing it is now publicly established.

BUT THE CAPABILITY TO SCAN CONTENT OF PHOTOS ON DEVICE EXISTS. The argument is tomorrow they can simply start sending scan meta data or captions of image content up to a server without you opting into cloud storage.

The capability exists on device. It's all baby steps.

The next step in that debate is "yeah but the big monopolies are making it impossible for a little guy to get in." Which is true.

We can agree the regulatory capture is bad.

In the meanwhile, Google is not openly saying they will run ML on your images on your phone. With Android, you don't have to sync to the cloud, and you could even replace or add your own camera option. You can side-load without jailbreaking, etc.

Now, not that most consumer friendly option, but the advice for this crowd is still good - if you still have an iPhone and this is the last straw for you, there are plenty of good options that still exist, today. And then - let's fight regulatory capture and big government so a more dynamic marketplace can take root.