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Could there not be a reason that Apple made this choice involving their own legal risk? Sometimes what a law actually requires is up to what happens in court in the future.
Apple doesn't need to fight anything.
Apple isn't doing shit except for following the law. If you don't like the law, change it. I will edit this to say, since I'm sure people are out there who will make this point: yes, I read the article. I disagree with it. "Not required by the OS" Well that isn't going to matter much when Apple gets hit with a big fat fine for "allowing" underage users on social media.
I activated ADP as soon as it was available here, and I was hoping things would work out, and friends and family who missed the opportunity would be able to use it by now as well. I’m not pleased with this move, but its implementation has me wondering. I barely keep up with anything these days so I was taken by surprise after I updated. And, probably due to the decrepitude, I was annoyed for a few days that my phone…
If you rolled back make sure you're on 18.7.7 or you're exposed to the "DarkSword", active in the wild if I'm not mistaken. (I hope someone corrects me, I've read first hand sources but can't verify them independently)
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This isn't a legal thing, it's Apple being Apple. The law is about platforms that deal in pornography, self harm, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_age_verification_in_the...
The comment that you are replying to is saying that it's not exclusive to Apple and gives a non-Apple example. Your link has zero instances of the string "Apple". What am I missing. > The law is about platforms that deal in pornography, self harm, etc So...not exclusive to Apple.
Why have Western countries introduced so many laws that look like China’s? The government controls more and more individuals
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-beh...
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> Ah, the classic "aPpLe cAn dO nO wRoNg" comment from a thread full of nothing but Apple lovers. Hey, this is an awful comment from someone who has been on HN long enough to know better. That random capitalization thing is a cheap form of sneering, as well as being a tired old internet trope, and the whole comment breaks this guideline: Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the communi…
So, are you also going to do anything about the top comment being fake news? It literally says something completely that is not true. Minus the "sneering", I think the validity of my comment remains.
The issue is the parties taking a strong stance on this are not the ones I’d normally align with
This article is not great. It doesn't link to anything other than itself and two of those links are "donate" and "subscribe". I found this Apple Insider page with more information and an actual description of how it works, from someone doing journalism instead of soliciting donations and subscriptions: https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/02/25/how-age-verificat... It's going to take some more searching to find an ar…
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Funny; as a Brit I'd say the above is a classic hallmark of American companies. Brits are masters of malicious compliance.
> Brits are masters of malicious compliance. My favourite example of this was when Thatcher passed a law banning the broadcast of Sinn Féin. The BBC responded by dubbing the audio with actors’ voices. So you would watch the news and see an interview with Gerry Adams, but you would be hearing an actor speak his words, meaning the BBC were complying with the law by not broadcasting his voice.