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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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[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

My God. At least the US's fascism sort of makes sense from an internally consistent perspective. Make it make sense!

[–] plyth@feddit.org -4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

The war with China is coming and both the US and the UK want to minimize the impact of protests. It will be inevitably nuclear because China cannot be beaten conventionally. So people will feel a bit compelled to protest which could put to test the usual means of population control.

Downvoters, do you have a counter-argument? The US will defend their hegemonial position which will lead to war.

[–] evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I did not downvote but you’re asserting several things that you can’t possibly know. 1. War with China is coming. 2. It will inevitably be nuclear. 3. This is being done to prevent people from protesting when #1 & 2 occur.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago

Thanks for the feedback. I think there are no other options.

  1. The US want to remain the hegemon but China will take the technological lead and thus the military lead soon. Some say already 2027. The US more or less openly plan a naval blockade. But how can they maintain it if they have to ship everything half way accross the world? So they have to beat China.

  2. Also because of the shipping distance, China will always have more conventional weapons. The only remaining advantage is nuclear. Even robots seem to be taken over by China.

  3. What else can be so abhorent that we need to push the surveillance infrastructure that hard? Freedom is the selling point of the West. Why should countries choose the West over China if we have the same restrictions? We would lose in the long run, unless we use the restrictions to beat China.