UK PM gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children's phones

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18 points·tompagenet2··7 comments

Isn’t this something already implemented on Apple devices a few years ago? Where potentially sensitive images received are blocked until reviewed by a parent.

I think that only applies to the messages app

Sigh! Once again they are pushing something they don't understand the impact of.

It sounds great on paper, they can pretend they have done something. The reality is, the overreaching age gating they enforced, resulted in a lot of parents needing to set stuff to adult settings, because like this, the government doesn't have a clue what they are doing

>> The reality is, the overreaching age gating they enforced, resulted in a lot of parents needing to set stuff to adult settings, because like this, the government doesn't have a clue what they are doing

Can you explain this more? I’m not sure I understand what parents had to do and why.

Regular device accounts now ask you to prove you are 18+ through different processes, mine was enabled based on age of Apple ID.

This is entirely seperate to the family sharing permissions that’s presumably the op is talking about, where I think? They are saying the permissions are not fine grained enough so workarounds are needed.

Not sure why this has ended up preferable to a smartphone ban for under 16? Surely we could decide to sell dumber devices that allow communication without internet and image sharing / capture?

A police state is gonna police.

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