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UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones (arstechnica.com)
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“The UK government wants technology companies to block explicit images on phones and computers by default to protect children, with adults having to verify their age to create and access such content,” the FT report said. “Ministers want the likes of Apple and Google to incorporate nudity-detection algorithms into their device operating systems to prevent users taking photos or sharing images of genitalia unless they are verified as adults.”

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[–] habitualcynic@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Even if you’re morally opposed to the various things this addresses, it is so immensely concerning and unwise to want a corporation to have this much control over your actions, daily life, and liberty.

I don’t think enough people talk about that.

[–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

This has been very obvious to a lot of people since mobile devices were originally invented. The notion that you are sold a product that you "own" but is still 100% controlled by the vendor - anyone who thought about it for more than a second knew that it would eventually come to this. Of course, nobody gave even that tiny amount of thought about it. Or they were too naïve to think that a corporation could ever be evil.

I miss the times when spyware was considered uncoool. Mobile devices are the undoubtedly the worst invention of the information age. (And social media is probably the second worst.)

[–] webp@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Literally. Why should a corporation control when you wank?

[–] habitualcynic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get that, but I don’t even mean it in that sense. A corporation should not have any control over what I do whatsoever unless I’m their employee.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

And even if you are an employee, only in work related stuff and during business hours, the rest, get out of my life.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want them to ban porn so I feel dirty when I watch it.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm normally not one to kink shame, but I'm shaming you right now.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 18 hours ago

Shame me harder daddy

[–] dangercake@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

If there was a decent salary, I'd do it