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[–] theoldones 0 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago 

alt-tech will work around this and not give a fuck.

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[–] sore_ass_losers 0 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Munge up the image a bit so it won't compare according to their algorithms. Build this into the meme builder sites.

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[–] theoldones 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

"oopsies, it looks the file we sent off to the the auth server was getting distorted and that for many months we havent been enforcing this"

new website outside their jurisdiction appears

"come use our website! we dont use article 13 and never will."

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[–] PewterKey 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I just don't understand how this is going to work. Are they sending/comparing Hashes, literally salt the hash and it's broken. Editing the picture even slightly would also void it.

Are they sending the whole file to some server? Youtube, Imgur/reddit or Facebook alone would DDOS it into the ground. Plus the files could be distorted in a way that makes matching difficult, like over compressing or converting to obscure formats. And this isn't even malicious yet. A malicious website owner might send multiple copies of the same file (maybe with some transformations) to be extra careful about the law. Or might convert pictures into a singleframe high framerate HD video to bulk test. Or the reverse and extract frames of a video as pictures that each individually are tested. The more someone thinks about it the more they will find to break.

Is it manual comparison? Youtube alone gets something like a day's worth of video every minute. Facebook likely is similar. It's literally impossible for humans, unless some magically EU cash is coming out of no where. Plus this would likely still have a huge number of false positives and false negatives.

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[–] fat_b0i 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Deep fry that meme, man.

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