I think that being less capable is probably better for the current organization, especially if there are already people behind the scenes pulling strings.
Glad he ended up working on the right side, either way. It goes to show that there are people on the inside that eventually choose to do right for the right reason, and not just to try and save themselves at the last minute.
Their spot will be filled with a yes man for the party. Better to organize in your position of power and let them fire or remove you forcefully than to give up your seat.
"if you do it correctly" holds a lot of weight to this argument. I'd be worried of anyone who wants to start from scratch, instead of building on the current foundation.
You make good points, though. I'm just more skeptical than you.
instead voting for independent anarchist parties which try to get rid of as many laws and government institutions and also nationalize anything the people will be better served by, under collective ownership.
Once the laws are gone/things are deregulated, the corpos will likely take over. Nationalizing sounds good, but likely won't end well without regulations, imo.
Google isn't the only service checking for csam. Microsoft (and other file hosting services, likely) also have methods to do this. This doesn't mean they also host csam to detect it. I believe their checks use hash values to determine if a picture is already clocked as being in that category.
This has existed since 2009 and provides good insight on the topic, used for detecting all sorts of bad category images:
I think that being less capable is probably better for the current organization, especially if there are already people behind the scenes pulling strings.