Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

Re:Apple's child protection features spark concern within it... by ElFitz on Friday August 13, 2021 @03:36AM (#28166461)

Those already doing far worse than banning a consumer electronics company's products?

And, in all honesty, there's a lot of those.

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Re:Apple's child protection features spark concern within it... by brandon272 on Friday August 13, 2021 @12:30PM (#28171081)

I meant in the context of U.S. governments. What Democrat administration wants to ban Apple? What Republican administration wants to ban Apple?

Sounds like political suicide on either side: government interference with the country's largest company, an iconic brand, for no reason other than to hopefully spy more on your citizens.

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Re:Apple's child protection features spark concern within it... by emodendroket on Friday August 13, 2021 @12:41PM (#28171243)

The concern being raised is about some unnamed authoritarian government without US legal norms, though.

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Re:Apple's child protection features spark concern within it... by ctdonath on Saturday August 14, 2021 @08:31AM (#28180133)

Analogy: the prospect of “vaccine passports” for jurisdictional movement and access is getting serious consideration at all levels of U.S. governance. Not long ago, anything so resembling “papiere, bitte” commonly inspired a sense of violent resistance against totalitarianism. Just takes one engaging “but this is different” to reframe the worst of humanity to popular compulsion.

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Re:Apple's child protection features spark concern within it... by emodendroket on Saturday August 14, 2021 @12:33PM (#28181951)

There is nothing novel about them besides the name.

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