UK PM tells Apple and Google to ban nude images on children's phones

robtherobber

Private businesses should not have any insight on what's on people's phones, let alone the ability to ban images. Whilst we, as a society, may have an issue on our hands in that sense (I believe that we totally don't), it is for us to decide how to tackle that, not for governments to actively allow and enforce such rules via private enterprises.

its_notjack

Once again this will of course run on the same premise of "guilty until proven innocent" from the Online Safety Act. Children's safety is one thing, but forcing adults to give away private details to unknown age verification entities to simply use the devices they already paid for is an absurd proposition.

joxdosba

UK government largely keeps it’s hands off kids’ alcohol consumption, why is porn the hill to die on?

RetroTechie

Anyone else getting sick of conservatives & religious zealots on their everlasting "nude is bad!" crusade? Plain nudity in a non-sexual context (eg. naturism, or within a family), minors exploring the bodies of themselves & their peers, sex education, nude art, scandinavian style sauna's, medical subjects, the list of may-involve-nudity-but-harmless-to-minors goes on & on. These UK politicians serious about banning all the above & more, as soon as it comes near a kids' smartphone? Idiots, they're the ones hurting minors here.

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If the UK government tells you "think of the children" you know (1) the creeps who are friends with Epstein and the likes are actually thinking of children, and (2) this is a scam and a fallacy. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Think_of_the_children https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk