Technology

England is turning into a really proper shithole country

As the dad of a teenager, I am "encouraging" him to put nudity blocking systems on his phone.

oh shit would you look at that i just taught him how to go around me and hide his behavior better im sure there will be no future consequences whatsoever

Even if you’re morally opposed to the various things this addresses, it is so immensely concerning and unwise to want a corporation to have this much control over your actions, daily life, and liberty.

I don’t think enough people talk about that.

OMG. These plans are getting on my nerves.

When a parent gives a kid their device and sets the child’s birthday, then enable these. If the birthday is over 18, the let them do what they want.

Let parents parent the kid and get the government out of my life.

In the end it isn't about the kids , what they want is control and tracking of everyone.

Puritanical bullshit... what the fuck.

*It's like tumblr banning nudity, which basically came down to banning any picture containing nipples. Except like, for a whole backwards country.

Looks like click-bait. It is a proposal from by one old fart in the 800 member House of Lords. Not a serious Bill.

Read this thread...

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1pnsawo/comment/nubbach/

Having said that, it is important to nip such ideas in the bud.

UK war on ...nudity?

Them being prude is nothing new but this takes the cake.

Bringing back the prudish Victorian era?

that will quickly turn into "continuously monitor your users' screens for what they are doing so you can detect nudity" where the real aim will ofcourse be surveillance and selling highly personal data. I don't know about Apple but google will be all over it.

Ahhhhhh just fuck off you useless cunts! Why don't you fix the fact that we've got kids fucking starving in this country before worrying about if they've seen tits before they're 18?!

It's dumb shit like this that is really pushing me to KMS once my mother has passed on. I can't stand sharing oxygen with these morons.

Kier Starmer is a nevernude. Pass it on.

Year of the linux phone

If they make it obligatory, sudo systemctl disable uk-spyware

(I know that in that case it would be illegal to disable, solvable with sudo systemctl enable uk-spyware-spoof)

Jesus fucking Christ I hate this shithole of a country

We need a solid linux phone fast.

Why, yes I would like to get literally cockblocked by Google and Apple. Thanks UK! /s

Client side scanning, it's already happening in android running google services there are two apps automatically installed which at least I know scan photos in the device. One is android system saftycore and the other I can't remember the name.

What a joke world we are living in. UK is getting too crazy with their "protection children" and introducing age limits by people providing their password and IDs. And chat control. And now this again, blocking these pictures would require massive privacy issues and closed source operating systems that will lock the user down like North Korea.

Gargle my balls, m'lord.

Soon: Police sirens have been detected, video recording terminated.

police begin shooting protesters

Gotta love how it's "better" in these assholes' "minds" to pretend sex doesn't exist than to actually parent them on the topic that the kids are gonna find out about anyway - often in an unexpected and/or uncontrolled fashion. I'd much rather get ahead of that and make sure they know what they need to before they come face-to-face with it and are clueless - something much more likely to result in what is a supposedly (because they sure are picking the worst way to avoid it) undesirable outcome in the end.

Seems more reasonable to put UK-blocking systems on them...

Fuck you. My phone. My rules. Open source OS it is for my next phone...

100 members of the lords vs one adguard filter

They're doing their part in UK politics. Tories stole everything they could and drove it all into the ground until everyone got sick and elected labour. Now they're raising taxes to put money back in and doing everything they can to make sure they're hated enough that there is no chance they get re-elected. Then, Tories can just walk back in and take all the money coming in from the new taxes again. It's a beautiful cycle of the general population getting fucked from both sides.

I encourage UK's government to sit on it and rotate. And Keir Starmer can go do one with rusty barbed wire.

They’re obviously going about it the wrong way, but this is inching towards the right way to go - keep age verification like biometric verification, encrypted and on-device. That’s a million times better than getting random pron sites to ask for your biometric data.

If they’d started with this thought and then kept thinking from there, they could have ended up with something decent and effective, rather than the current shitshow.

Gotta blur out those women's ankles.