South Korea is facing a surge in digital sex crimes, particularly involving deepfake pornography targeting women and minors. What’s more troubling, teenagers are often the ones perpetrating these crimes. South Korea’s President, Yoon Suk Yeol, has urged authorities to "thoroughly investigate and address these digital sex crimes to eradicate them."Read Entire Article

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    2 months ago

    It’s obviously immoral to share images of people without their consent, but this seems to demonize Telegram, which is not the problem, messaging apps should not be policing the content of private chats on their platform. The problem is people, teach them not to do this. Don’t spy on their messages, censor them, or ban an entire platform for a few people using a tiny part of it.

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        2 months ago

        Indeed, the United States Postal Service would not be responsible for people abusing their service to mail dangerous content to others, if that is a thing that would happen, and they have a rule to maintain privacy of mail and not inspect it. If they were inspecting every parcel, it might be their fault if they allowed dangerous content to pass on, but it would also be an invasion of privacy and a bad idea in the first place.

        Maybe if people opted in to the postal service checking their mail for dangerous content, that would make it ethical.