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UK’s Starmer gives Apple, Google 3 months to stop children sending nude images (www.scmp.com)
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Do they actually know how the technology works? They will have to scan everything inbound and outbound connections, basically managed devices.

Apple and Google have been given a three-month ultimatum to make it impossible for children to take, share or view nude images on their smartphones, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday.

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[–] 5 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

Obviously protecting children must always be a priority, the issue with this is, is that tech companies will understandably go for the easier option: force age verification system wide, without it, the OS might be extremely limited, and this opens a whole new can of worms IMO.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Obviously protecting children must always be a priority

    No it really doesn't have to always be. Protecting children should be balanced against harm to the rest of society. The vast majority of children will thankfully go on to live far more as non-children.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I wasn’t exclusively and aggressively prioritizing children safety over everything else, I was just highlighting the fact that it’s very important and should be correctly prioritized and not in a unilateral way.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    And collect data on everyone including children while pointing to the law and saying that have to which enriches them more and more as time goes on.

    They aren't even going to fight it. The like the idea of being able to gather more information on people. They'll say "it's just to make sure they aren't of age yet so we can keep them safe until we can legally show them ads and stuff that they're no longer protected from". They aren't fighting against laws like this. They're lobbying for them.

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