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Apple 'Porn' Filter

Guest post by Ryan Farmer (who adds, "here's the article that got my [whole] blog taken down")

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Summary: Apple and US State Governments Developing System to Require People to Report Themselves for Watching Porn.

According to NBC News, at least 8 US states are considering a law that requires mobile device manufacturers to recognize pornography and censor it automatically, whether you’re using carrier data or your home’s WiFi, and they could be exposed to criminal liability if they’re not doing a perfect job, so expect them to be extremely aggressive with the filters.

Apple is best positioned to implement it since they admit they already have device scanners and porn filters, and the filters just aren’t on by default (yet).

"Apple has admitted the porn filters were intended to blur things in iMessage and alert “parents”."Apple doesn’t allow software to be installed outside their App store and these laws would require them to censor their App Store.

Apple has admitted the porn filters were intended to blur things in iMessage and alert “parents”.

So basically what changes when the 8 states (so far) pass the “model bill” to ban porn on mobile devices?

Apple changes their “blur and report” system to detect porn being displayed in any application on the iPhone/iPad.

If it’s illegal, they just go ahead and send an automated report to the cops, but they do that now, so…

If it’s not illegal, they just blur it and make you hand your driver’s license information to another app that’s put there by your state and take a face pic, like iD Me.

"I’m sure that medical students will love this."Apple has gone pretty quiet with their alleged “Privacy” campaign, it was always fake, like DuckDuckGo.

The idea is that you bait users into a platform where they have no agency and can’t stop you, and then put in this fake anti-tracking stuff that’s surface deep, and then way way down into the bowels of the iOS system, you put spyware in that’s very quiet about what it’s actually doing so you don’t spook the user. They think that you have their back while they’re being bugged.

So, in a year or two when you can’t read accurate information in an encyclopedia or medical journal about the human reproductive system, because Apple can’t decide if it’s porn or not, and you have to give your driver’s license to a state government app that tells your state you want to watch porn, be proud of yourself for defending Apple all of these years saying “Only people with things to hide need to be worried.”.

I’m sure that medical students will love this.

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