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Looks like click-bait. It is a proposal from by one old fart in the 800 member House of Lords. Not a serious Bill.
Read this thread...
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1pnsawo/comment/nubbach/
Having said that, it is important to nip such ideas in the bud.
England is turning into a really proper shithole country
American here......first time?
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
The important thing isn't that your kids don't see porn, it's that they feel the requisite amount of shame and never talk to you about their sexuality.
Also, it's one more thing we can criminalize in a surveillance state. So now we can more easily extort horny people with fines and prison if we feel the need
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.
Is it safe to remove if I use Google messages often?
I'm not totally sure I barely use Google Messages except for verification codes, I prefer to uninstall it preventing it from having any access to my local end to end encrypted keys for other apps. but it's up to you I guess.
Gotta blur out those women's ankles.
Remember when Tumblr banned porn, and implemented it so poorly that any photos with enough peach-ish or brown-ish colors got nuked for “displaying nudity”?
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)
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.)
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!
Gargle my balls, m'lord.
I encourage UK's government to sit on it and rotate. And Keir Starmer can go do one with rusty barbed wire.
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.
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.
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.
Fuck you. My phone. My rules. Open source OS it is for my next phone...
I think it's time to throw my phone in the river.
Please don't, our rivers are polluted enough as it is
Throw it on Stamer's head, at least you give it one last food use.
OMG. These plans are getting on my nerves.
When a parent gives a kid their device and sets the child’s birthday, then enable these. If the birthday is over 18, the let them do what they want.
Let parents parent the kid and get the government out of my life.
Or just don’t fucking age gate shit.
Seriously who the fuck cares if a kid sees a titty?
Puritanical bullshit... what the fuck.
*It's like tumblr banning nudity, which basically came down to banning any picture containing nipples. Except like, for a whole backwards country.
Man, I was at tumblr when this was being implemented. It was so fucking stupid and everyone knew it.
Ahhhhhh just fuck off you useless cunts! Why don't you fix the fact that we've got kids fucking starving in this country before worrying about if they've seen tits before they're 18?!
It's dumb shit like this that is really pushing me to KMS once my mother has passed on. I can't stand sharing oxygen with these morons.
Seems more reasonable to put UK-blocking systems on them...
100 members of the lords vs one adguard filter
What a joke world we are living in. UK is getting too crazy with their "protection children" and introducing age limits by people providing their password and IDs. And chat control. And now this again, blocking these pictures would require massive privacy issues and closed source operating systems that will lock the user down like North Korea.
What makes it worse is that the legislators are technologically illiterate. I don't expect politicians to be experts in everything, but I do expect them to listen to experts.
Take chat control, for instance. Experts said that it would end up being harmful because the more legit sites would implement age controls, and that this would drive traffic to the less legit sites that aren't implementing such controls — sites where there's a much higher likelihood of harmful content like revenge porn, non-consensual porn, etc..
And then when the completely predictable consequences of chat control arise, then the legislators have the audacity to be like shocked-pikachu.jpeg. And then they continue to ignore the experts and ask stupid questions like "how do we ban VPNs?"
UK war on ...nudity?
Them being prude is nothing new but this takes the cake.
