iPhone's New Parental Controls Block Sex Ed, Allow Violence and Racism (vice.com)

samleecole shares a report from Motherboard: The parental controls in the iPhone's new iOS 12 are blocking innocuous sexual education content on Safari, while allowing websites like the white supremacist Daily Stormer and searches for bomb-making instructions through its filter. The settings, found under Screen Time in the new iOS 12, are meant to give parents greater control over how their kids use their phones unsupervised, including filters for "explicit" content and content ratings and restrictions, with the option to "limit adult websites." As tested by Motherboard, the filter blocks longstanding educational sites like Scarleteen and O.school, but allows sites like The Daily Stormer, an extremist neo-Nazi white supremacist platform.

The filter in question "limits adult websites" on Safari. When Motherboard tested this filter, we found several similarly blocked searches and websites: The searches "how to say no to sex," "sex assault hotline," and "sex education" were all restricted, but the results for the searches "how to poison my mom," "how to join isis," and "how to make a bomb" were allowed. 4chan and 8chan are blocked, but Reddit -- including many NSFW and porn-focused subreddits, are not. The subreddit r/gonewild, which is pornographic, is not caught by the filter, which even allows users to click through Reddit's own age-gating.

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Tons of web filters work like this

[Anonymous Coward]

But yeah, I know... "It'z teh Applessss!!!!!111111!!!!"

Haven't you bitches fucked yourselves raw yet? Seriously. It's time to move on and stop being trap clap whores.

Re:So how would it deal with GNAA

[BeauHD (5555555)]

Whom or what is GNAA?

This kind of Censorship is exactly what we come to expect from how the TRUMP administration turns a "Blind Eye" to companies like Apple which surprisingly occasionally support racism. All children need access to Sex Ed materials. If we have a government department to release Sex Ed materials we can just have it mandated they cannot be locked out and can be viewed by any person, any sex, anywhere, at any age, and without ever having any repercussions of seeing life saving educational material.

Come on America, Wake up. We really need an educated America so we can have better decisions made in the future. Otherwise, the likes of Vladimir Putin will instead destroy what is left of this once great country.

Re:Steve Jobs Was a Prude - And Apple Still Is

[gerald.edward.butler]

This is because women are paranoid about their bodies and hysterical when it comes to a nude male's body whereas men want to "control" women's bodies.

Women are paranoid, because, as the physically weaker sex (in general) they are incredibly vulnerable to exploitation and losing control of their bodies. They are hysterical (in general) when it comes to nude male bodies because it sets off their "spidey sense/primitive brain" in a negative way due to the aforementioned vulnerability.

Men want to control women's bodies because they want to procreate and they don't want to get stuck supporting someone else's procreation. NOTE: Women do not have this issue. If a man "cheats" on a woman, the woman can't, without knowing, end up raising and supporting another woman's child. If a woman "cheats" on a man, that man could end up supporting and raising a child that is not his offspring (unknowingly).

This is why the various sexual taboos exist. For women, it is about vulnerability (i.e. "Rape") whereby a woman can end up having to raise/support a child from a man she didn't want. For men, it is about the "Rape" of having to unknowingly raise/support another man's child.

It really is that simple. All other taboos proceed from that.

Now, with respect to "violence" being not as taboo. Here are the reasons why:

      * War - taking resources from others for "your" group. This benefits women the most (traditionally) of the winning side.
      * As you mentioned, most people won't ever experience true violence (not sexually related) outside of war (and most today don't even have that to worry about)
    * Violence directed towards others for your benefit is "good". Only violence directed at you is "bad". Most people who claim to be "non-violent" are perfectly happy with others doing violence on their behalf as long as they don't have to get their hands dirty.