The concern is not as much about what this system does today as it is what it could easily expand to do tomorrow.
A list of banned content that lives on your phone sets a new and alarming precedent.
A list of banned content that lives on your phone sets a new and alarming precedent.
A list of banned content already exists on Facebook servers, and we have no way of auditing if that list only includes CP. Where's all the outrage over that?
The worry seems to boil down to; "they could CHANGE it in the future". If the concern is about the potential for a future system, then such concerns are infinite, since infinite new systems could always be proposed or deployed. I would rather conserve my outrage for that moment, rather than be the boy who cried wolf.
Though this certainly isn't an argument for apathy. I think the amount of push-back Apple is getting is probably healthy, even if it's hyperbolic.
This is simply not true. I have to assume you know that.