Comment by hypothesis

4 years ago

Supporting and advocating for “Right to Repair” laws was never more crucial, because this is not going to stop at iPhone or mac.

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motohagiography  4 years ago

Just to extend my comment in response to how this problem will spread:

By doing surveillance on types of images, Apple is in effect implementing anti-virus - for ideas. That's only a bit hyperbolic, as the perceptual hash for a viral meme can be searched on, just like the material they're using as a pretext for it.

I could even see them announcing it at a launch. We should be concerned that the company has skipped its Black Mirror stage and jumped right into its Universal Paperclips endgame.

(I'm also appreciating the irony that people like me being angry about Apple announcing they're going to implement a version of what Google has already been technically able to do for the last decade, and what Microsoft has probably been doing in secret since even before then.)

  • pronlover723  4 years ago

    Apple already disallows lots of ideas.

    You can't make these apps for iOS (NSFW!) https://sexgames.citor3.com/

    And arguably, if you've tried apps like those in actual VR their impact doesn't come close in non VR. But, since Apple doesn't carry porn in the app store and doesn't allow other stores Apple is effectively banning thoughts.

  • coldtea  4 years ago

    >I could even see them announcing it at a launch. We should be concerned that the company has skipped its Black Mirror stage and jumped right into its Universal Paperclips endgame.

    Well, what Apple did is squarely Black Mirror stage, nowhere near Universal Paperclips.

  • bostik  4 years ago

    > Apple is in effect implementing anti-virus - for ideas.

    Should we call that anti-dissent? Or thought police?