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>It said that rules under the act affected the way it provided users access to apps. “Pornography apps are available on iPhone from other marketplaces – apps we’ve never allowed on the App Store because of the risks they create, especially for children,” it said.

Oh the children card! Too bad you do ship such an app with your device since forever, it's called a Browser!

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Are there people around who still believe the narrative and gives the benefit of the doubt to whoever says that it is for the children? Crazy.

No; they just want to have cover for the real reason they don't like these apps: because it goes against their duplicitous religious morality.

There's no morality. They'd sell porn in a minute if they thought it would be a net help to the bottom line.

Yes, but it's not Apple who is driven by the nonsense religious morality

Yes of course, it's clearly extremely effective and is the go to excuse for restricting your rights across the world.

If there weren't, it wouldn't still be such a widely-used and effective tactic for getting people to shut off their brains and do whatever the person saying it wants.

A browser, gacha-esque games with microtransactions to get kids addicted and spending, gambling and betting apps...

Think of the children though, they can't see boobs.

>Think of the children though, they can't see boobs.

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Back in my day we had to go out to the forest to see boobs...

While some just had to look in the mirror!

I'm all for playing the "oh, the children!" card. As a parent it's nice to not have to worry about that sort of thing.

It does ring hollow when the Screen Time controls that Apple includes is such a muddled mess. And, sometimes, it just doesn't seem to work properly at all. Working properly, the browser bypass isn't really a problem, but it's very twitchy and fiddly to set up.

If you enabled parental controls, then unrated apps from outside the App Store are already blocked by default. The DMA creates no additional risk here.

And if you could actually be the device administrator, you could set rules however you want instead of being on the same user level as the child.

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