• Lytia @lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    They kinda were. Don’t get me wrong, still entirely by choice, but more and more countries and states are forcing OS level age verification.

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      2 months ago

      How things change.

      Once upon a time, Apple stood up to the FBI’s demands. Now they’re caving to an implication in an authoritarian foreign country.

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        2 months ago

        Apple pretended to stand up to them a couple times in high-profile cases for optics. They were helping them all along.

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            2 months ago

            Even if true, I think I prefer when Apple was normalizing standing up to surveillance, instead of being the first to endorse it.

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              2 months ago

              Yeah, I agree. I just wanted to call them out because FUD has never once helped the privacy community, and I’m tired of people strawmanning big tech and making the comm look bad.