"X's Yaccarino said the company supported the STOP CSAM Act, legislation introduced by Durbin that seeks to hold tech companies accountable for child sexual abuse material and would allow victims to sue tech platforms and app stores."
Of course they do. It would wipe out small to medium platforms and entrench the current oligopoly of big DataFarms. Don't be fooled, this is regulatory capture at work.
"To be honest, I am pulling my hair out over 'online safety' bills that pretend to be focused on helping young people when they’re really anti-tech bills that are using children for political agendas in ways that will fundamentally hurt the most vulnerable young people out there."
The Four Horsemen of the Technopocalypse are riding again folks. I've already commented extensively about the "but Nazis" horseman being used to justify suppressing freedom of expression. Now it's the 'think of the children' horseman, being used to force adult websites to say "papers please, comrade" to every visitor: