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It's all tempered by them ultimately controlling what you can put on your phone though. As was demonstrated in LA, it's starting to have significant civil righ
by derbOac 8mo ago
It's all tempered by them ultimately controlling what you can put on your phone though.
As was demonstrated in LA, it's starting to have significant civil rights consequences.
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- throwaway290 8mo agoSecurity is pointless if platform allows 90% users to be social engineered into running code disabling that security
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- bigstrat2003 8mo agoThe ability for people to do stupid things is the inescapable price of freedom. That does not make freedom not worth it.
- derbOac 8mo agoWhat's funny is you could read that statement as being an argument for or against walled gardens, depending on what kind of social engineering is being referred to.
- throwaway290 8mo agoAlso depending on whether review process is going to catch the bad code...
- nozzlegear 8mo agoWhat happened in LA?
- derbOac 8mo agohttps://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/tech/iceblock-apple-removed-trump https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/tech/iceblock-apple-removed-t...
- nozzlegear 8mo agoI forgot about that and hadn't tied it to LA specifically in my head. Thanks for reminding me, really shitty thing that made me a lot more sympathetic to alternative app stores where I'd been against them before.