England is turning into a really proper shithole country
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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I encourage UK's government to sit on it and rotate. And Keir Starmer can go do one with rusty barbed wire.
As the dad of a teenager, I am "encouraging" him to put nudity blocking systems on his phone.
oh shit would you look at that i just taught him how to go around me and hide his behavior better im sure there will be no future consequences whatsoever
I will never buy a device that cockblocks me. I was talking shit about the nothing phone yesterday but I guess imma save up to buy it.
Block everything but calls and maps.
Why, yes I would like to get literally cockblocked by Google and Apple. Thanks UK! /s
Client side scanning, it's already happening in android running google services there are two apps automatically installed which at least I know scan photos in the device. One is android system saftycore and the other I can't remember the name.
Thanks for the info. Didn't know that shit was on my phone. Deleted.
If you happen to remember the second app name, please post it.
The other one is Android System Key Verifier, for that I'm not totally sure it's malware but as it have access to your end to end encrypted keys and the way it's secretly installed seems shady to me. Looks like a way for Google to intercept end to end encrypted messages for me.
Year of the linux phone
If they make it obligatory, sudo systemctl disable uk-spyware
(I know that in that case it would be illegal to disable, solvable with sudo systemctl enable uk-spyware-spoof)
Gargle my balls, m'lord.
I think it's time to throw my phone in the river.
They’re obviously going about it the wrong way, but this is inching towards the right way to go - keep age verification like biometric verification, encrypted and on-device. That’s a million times better than getting random pron sites to ask for your biometric data.
If they’d started with this thought and then kept thinking from there, they could have ended up with something decent and effective, rather than the current shitshow.
Make it the software that comes with the device. So Samsung can install some child protection app and we just uninstall it. Anything bad ever happens on a kids phone? Why did the parents uninstall it?
Make the parents take the responsibility.
In the end it isn't about the kids , what they want is control and tracking of everyone.
Of course it is, because nobody is willing to try and quantify or qualify the harms that seeing pornography has on a young person. It's just "adult content" so we'll go so far as to put VR headsets on everyone and ask them to verify their age or else they get a PG, low-polygon representation of reality!
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.
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.)
Literally. Why should a corporation control when you wank?
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.
I want them to ban porn so I feel dirty when I watch it.
I'm normally not one to kink shame, but I'm shaming you right now.
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Fuck you. My phone. My rules. Open source OS it is for my next phone...
Kier Starmer is a nevernude. Pass it on.
I bet he takes a bath in a swimsuit
that will quickly turn into "continuously monitor your users' screens for what they are doing so you can detect nudity" where the real aim will ofcourse be surveillance and selling highly personal data. I don't know about Apple but google will be all over it.
Apple just has better image control
Bringing back the prudish Victorian era?
I could actually imagine Starmer flustered by the sight of an ankle.
100 members of the lords vs one adguard filter
Seems more reasonable to put UK-blocking systems on them...
They're doing their part in UK politics. Tories stole everything they could and drove it all into the ground until everyone got sick and elected labour. Now they're raising taxes to put money back in and doing everything they can to make sure they're hated enough that there is no chance they get re-elected. Then, Tories can just walk back in and take all the money coming in from the new taxes again. It's a beautiful cycle of the general population getting fucked from both sides.
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