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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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 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.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How exactly would such a system work?

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AI, of course. It’s 100% accurate.

/s just in case

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

Can we have normal grocery prices first? Ban porn if you want, whatever, but please make our weekly shops affordable again. Any help on rent prices would be really nice, too.

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We shouldn't be living on the mercy of the bourgeois. Selling our freedom for bare essentials is what will drive us deeper into the slave life they have sincerely made for us.

We may have freedom to sell now, but what happens when we run out of that freedom?

[–] nostrauxendar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was more commenting on how grocery prices are more important than internet porn to be honest, and how thoroughly the govt are letting the public down by focusing on puritanical and unimportant bs like porn when food is unaffordable

I'm not sure the trade is internet porn for lower food prices, that isn't what I was suggesting

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Of ALL the things to block. Why not AI blocking? Or social media blocking.

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