However, the major tech corporations are not considering an immediate halt to their surveillance measures. Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Snapchat’s parent company, Snap, announced on Saturday in a joint statement that they will “continue to take voluntary measures” to identify such material on their platforms.
Because they desperately want to co-opt the state to allow their surveillance capitalism.
It really is a huge liability plus the optics are game ending for the public using their service. Can you imagine, “The government doesn’t require us to scan your conversations anymore, but we still do it anyways and sell it to whoever”.