How Ashton Kutcher’s ‘non-profit start-up’ makes millions from the EU’s fight against child abuse on the net
How Ashton Kutcher’s ‘non-profit start-up’ makes millions from the EU’s fight against child abuse on the net
The ‘non-profit start-up’ Thorn, founded by actor Ashton Kutcher, is a driving force behind the EU’s campaign to scan the net for child abuse material. Newly public documents and financial information obtained by Follow the Money reveal the blurred boundaries between Thorn’s do-good public face and ...
How Ashton Kutcher’s ‘non-profit start-up’ makes millions from the EU’s fight against child abuse on the net::The ‘non-profit start-up’ Thorn, founded by actor Ashton Kutcher, is a driving force behind the EU’s campaign to scan the net for child abuse material. Newly public documents and financial information obtained by Follow the Money reveal the blurred boundaries between Thorn’s do-good public face and the powerful business behind it.
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He's also not "fighting child abuse in the EU", he is lobbying for mass surveillance. Europol and the BKA (German federal police) already said that they would like to use the technology for others crimes. Especially in Germany, laws that were meant to fight child abuse or terrorism were actually used to hunt down small weed dealers and relatively harmless political activists (while over 600 nazis with open arrest warrants roam free).