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UK Wants All iPhones to Block Explicit Images Unless You Prove Age (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 1 month ago by G4Z@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] Flisty@mstdn.social -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@oeuf @G4Z I realise it's never going to happen and there would be loads of other fallout I haven't thought about, but I think governments *should* be allowed to. They can in every other field - our booze laws aren't the same as the US's, why should our dick pic laws be?
It might de-monopolise the industry a bit.

[–] G4Z@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fuck that, I'm an adult paying for internet service.

I don't ever watch porn on a mobile, but it's not the point. I don't want my internet filtered and it's a pure excuse to track and monitor us all at all times.

[–] Flisty@mstdn.social 1 points 1 month ago

@G4Z yeah in principle I agree but in practice "the internet" is about 4 companies. Until there's more competition your data is being consolidated anyway. And the only way to get competition is to enforce regulation. I don't think this is *good* regulation but I don't see why we should have to do what Apple want just because they're big.
Interestingly this comes at the same time as the smartphone-free childhood thing is gaining steam so there's probably a real-world solution anyway.