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New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK

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> 15 residencies leading to over 10 passports Unlikely, considering most places require you to fulfill the granted residency by actually physically being there. And are these even places you'd want to live?

only in the global north who want to you to spend half your time slaving for them. in the countries with privacy rights, and where slavery remains outlawed, the residency requirements are pretty minimal. would i want to live there? yes. most definitely.

Can you name some specific countries?

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only in the global north who want to you to spend half your time slaving for them. in the countries with privacy rights, and where slavery remains outlawed, the residency requirements are pretty minimal. would i want to live there? yes. most definitely.

Can you name some specific countries?

Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Kenya, Costa Rica, UAE, Palau, Turkey, etc.

Paraguay requires for example 1 day for tax residency, 1 day every year for temp and 1 day every 3 years for permanent.

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> I am worried about the inequality created for the kids if I am strict about rules, but other parents are not. Different families can choose to raise their children differently. Please let other parents make their own parenting choices for their own kids. There are parents who are more strict with their kids than you are in ways you don’t agree with. I guarantee you wouldn’t be happy if they were lobbying to force y…

zero countries give infinite freedom about how you raise your kids. and if too many parents fail at something probably government should do it for them. it's like drinking age. you can't send your kid for a beer. you are free to buy beer and let your kid drink a glass. same here. if something is not accessible to the kid directly you can still show it to your kid. you are the parent

> zero countries give infinite freedom about how you raise your kids.

The debate wasn’t about removing all government controls on parenting.

It’s about where to draw the line.

Re: New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK

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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…

This sounds weirdly like it was generated by AI.

I get accused of AI writing a lot on Hacker News lately. It’s alway when I take time to read the article, research the subject, and come back to write a thoughtful response with additional info to add to the topic. There’s something sad about how that looks like AI to some people, I suppose compared to the average expectations for what a comment section should look like?

Re: New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK

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I'm not worried about my parenting duties. I am worried about the inequality created for the kids if I am strict about rules, but other parents are not. That's why it is in my interest if other (lazier) parents are forced to comply. And yes, the PASS card has name and photo. But no adress, no social security number or secret ID or equivalent. If your PASS card leaks, nobody can create a bank account in your name. If…

If your passport leaks, they can [create a bank account] This seems like a country-specific problem. In Japan, even if opening an online bank account, a photocopy of a passport is simply insufficient to pass identity verification. Additionally, most country passports contain an IC chip that can be used for attestation. Any eKYC system that does not attempt reading data from the IC chip is fundamentally broken. It sho…

Are you aware that fake passports exist right?

Those people are not going into the bank with photocopies of passports, they are creating fake passports for that, all they need from the photocopy is the number to put in the fake one.

And in many countries this days you can create a bank accounts using the bank app and all they ask for is a photo of your ID/Passport, now you dont even have to create a good fake for that.

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Please don’t try to deflect from your own disrespectful conduct with this kind of “are you going to...?” goading. We don’t moderate on the basis of such charged qualitative judgments as “fake news”. We uphold the guidelines. If someone is wrong, point out how they are wrong, in the conversational style the guidelines clearly call for. Doing it in this sneering and hostile way only weakens your point and trashes this…

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You were asked to keep to the guidelines just a few weeks ago, particularly relating to making swipes at the community, and you committed to doing so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243319. We wouldn't be having this interaction if you had kept to that commitment, nor if you had respectfully heeded the reminder I posted. This place only continues to exist because enough other people conduct themselves respectfully.

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You were asked to keep to the guidelines just a few weeks ago, particularly relating to making swipes at the community, and you committed to doing so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243319 . We wouldn't be having this interaction if you had kept to that commitment, nor if you had respectfully heeded the reminder I posted. This place only continues to exist because enough other people conduct themselves respec…

Sure, I admit I wasn't aware the alternate caps was even a thing in the guideline. If you go into my comment history further, I've done it way more times, but never been flagged before (which is why I wasn't aware it was against the guidelines). Also, I didn't insult the community in my comment (please show me where?). I just pointed out that OP was conveniently choosing to ignore certain key facts in the original article just to craft a narrative - I'm sure you know this, but many people here own Apple stock and sometimes they have a conflict of interest, which really irritates me when they don't disclose and do such shady stuff.

But, let's leave that aside - isn't what you're doing now exactly considered as the very deflection you accused me of, earlier (deflection)? ie. I pointed out something you were wrong about - you just went into pointing out something I did in the past that was wrong instead of addressing my core point - that you didn't have to insult me to enforce the guidelines. You could have done so, without.

Again, as you have found out, I've interacted with dang, I don't know what happened to them, but I never was insulted by them before - despite consecutive flags (and I never repeated those mistakes).

Re: New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK

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signal did everything right on their end. encrypted push, content only shown if the user opts in. the weak link is iOS caching decrypted notification content in an unencrypted sqlite database that survives app deletion. the 'e2e' in e2e encryption ends at the os, not the app.

Re: New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK

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zero countries give infinite freedom about how you raise your kids. and if too many parents fail at something probably government should do it for them. it's like drinking age. you can't send your kid for a beer. you are free to buy beer and let your kid drink a glass. same here. if something is not accessible to the kid directly you can still show it to your kid. you are the parent

> zero countries give infinite freedom about how you raise your kids. The debate wasn’t about removing all government controls on parenting. It’s about where to draw the line.

exactly. so who of us said

> let other parents make their own parenting choices for their own kids

like somebody is taking it away?

you are still free to make your choices, just like with feeding your kid beer or giving them cigs. It's just a healthy default is now applied to average kid for whom parents don't care to make choices. Why do you keep arguing and moving goalposts?

Re: New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK

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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…

This sounds weirdly like it was generated by AI.

I've been thinking about true/false positives/negatives on this a lot lately and trying to see if there are any non-obvious signals in current AI/human text that impact those.

GP's comment doesn't seem to have any of the "obvious" signals most look for, would you be willing to share what signals you latched on to for this conclusion?

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