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Apple says their system is designed to prevent totalitarianism by only scanning images that appear in two or more countries' CSAM lists. So if one country sneaks in perfectly licit content, it won't scan for it.

Now, you might say that China would force Apple to scan for things anyway - and they might. But at the same time, China could have ordered this at any moment in the last decade. It's not like the Chinese government wouldn't force this tool to be made anyway.



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The Chinese government already has full access to all the data of Apple's China user base.

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