While I understand the criticism - this is not the point of Apple. Unsolicited nudity is usually used for harassment. I assume that also in Europe sending unsolicited nude photos to adult and kids isn't okay.
They wouldn't do it if it wasn't profitable in some way or another. But would they choose to give other reasons for their actions, there would definitely be more backslash about their snooping.
People in general know that protecting the innocent is a good thing and Apple exploits this to push their agendas under the guise of children protection. Again.
Like yes: the explicit purpose of parental controls is to allow parents to place limits on what their kids can do on a device, and in America specifically protect them from the concept of people existing under their clothes.
But I fail to see what Apple is doing here that you find offensive? Did you read the article and description of how the feature is enabled and works or did you just decide “Apple is evil and is choosing what I get to see”?
Not all "protections" are the same.
Everything happens on-device, with no use of Apple servers, and this is clearly called out in the release above. And beyond that, this is a feature that is only enabled by the parent, who society already accepts has the power to censor what their child views.
What you said would be like saying that the GNU foundation is reading your conversations when you type something into emacs.
If the US (and American tech companies) cared at all about children, or human life in general, they would do something about guns.
As a European, seeing videos on YT glorifying guns and gun culture is extremely shocking. I would let my kids run around naked all day, anytime, rather than letting them watch one video showing people firing an AR-15 like it's the most normal thing in the world.
YouTube is a cesspit though and I can totally see some overcaffeinated "content creator" churning out videos that misrepresent and pervert the otherwise sane tenets of firearms education.
But - there's the "think of the children" hypocrisy again. Think of the children, and "do something about" (i.e. ban) guns. Or ban videos about guns?
Kids can look at genitals all day but heaven forbid they watch a video about a gun? Or play video games that feature guns? Where's it end? We've exchanged one instance of hypocrisy for another. No thanks!
Culture is a different thing to discuss, sure, and glorifying violence is bad - which is what some of those videos do, though not all of them.
Still, we see countries like the Czech Republic where firearms may be carried concealed, nearly anywhere, with licensing on a shall-issue basis: there are relatively reasonable conditions not far from US-based shall-issue permit requirements (for the US states still even requiring a permit), as well, and CZ doesn’t seem to have issues.
Education about gun safety, and just general personal responsibility, used to be a thing in the US but the “education system” here fails us these days.
The fact that their principles might happen to be at-least-mostly-revenue-neutral is another discussion, though, I suppose.
> there should be a "see anyway" button
If you read the article and look at the pictures, "View photo..." is right underneath the blurred photo. It may not be called "see anyway", and it may not be a button per se, but it has the exact same effect.
Why? If you harass someone, you will put it into contacts so that it is easier.
That is absurd too.