bschelsea

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by bschelsea 7y ago
Complying with legal requests, fighting child pornography is not optional. Unless you are of course Mastodon etc. I don’t understand the article it quotes unnamed “former” employees who might very well could have been the ones who got fired
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by bschelsea 7y ago
Control as Liability .... unless you are the government!
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by bschelsea 7y ago
That’s false, alternatives offered by Apple don’t even come close to functionality provided by third party apps. E.g. easily using the browser instead of app.
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by bschelsea 7y ago
I completely agree with you, except Apple indiscriminately destroyed an entire industry of parental control apps under guise of Privacy. How is a parent supposed to enforce this (blocking Instagram).
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by bschelsea 7y ago
PLOS One has very little reviewing standards and accepts almost all papers. Given how strongly linked smartphones are to all aspects of life. You are vastly underestimating difficulty of taking aways someone’s smartphone. Since worst case
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by bschelsea 7y ago
Great thanks for proving my point. Let’s replace technologist by medical professionals and you can see immediately that parents consent is required for most medical procedures barring edge cases where doctors get a court order. Oh also COPP
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by bschelsea 7y ago
Huh that’s a bizarre take on the situation. Try explaining this to a parent whose daughter is suffering from ED and Self Harm. The sociologist/apologists won’t let instagram do anything since it breaks their fantasy of free speech bein
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by bschelsea 7y ago
I think this highlights the conflict between owner and a user. For Corporations with employees there is a clean distinctions. For kids it’s a lot more difficult decision. Apple in its zeal to maintain the woke privacy friendly image (everyw
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by bschelsea 7y ago
Hmm I feel like Billionaires are an easy target. And while the narrative is easy to sell, I doubt it’s the real answer. My belief is that wrong kind of complexity created the current state. Take Healthcare, Manufactured scarcity of doctors