Prevent explicit content and content ratings

You can also prevent the playback of music with explicit content and movies or TV shows with specific ratings. Apps also have ratings that can be configured using content restrictions.

To restrict explicit content and content ratings:

Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.
Choose the settings you want for each feature or setting under Allowed Store Content.

Here are the types of content that you can restrict:

Ratings For: Select the country or region in the ratings section to automatically apply the appropriate content ratings for that region
Music, Podcasts & News: Prevent the playback of music, music videos, podcasts, and news containing explicit content
Music Videos: Prevent finding and viewing music videos
Music Profiles: Prevent sharing what you're listening to with friends and seeing what they're listening to
Movies: Prevent movies with specific ratings
TV shows: Prevent TV shows with specific ratings
Books: Prevent content with specific ratings
Apps: Prevent apps with specific ratings

Bill Maher declares Apple CSAM tools a 'blatant constitutional breach'

randominternetperson

August 2021

exceptionhandler said:

netrox said:

This whole CSAM is tiring, it's been done by Google, MS, Tumblr, Reddit, and so on for YEARS! Apple just announced to make us know they're doing the same thing. I don't recall anyone batting an eye with MS, Google, Facebook, and so on.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna

https://protectingchildren.google/intl/en/

Just because something is done for YEARS, doesn’t necessarily make it right or wrong; that is fallacious thinking (Appealing to Tradition). I for one don’t agree with the other companies doing this, which is why I had moved away from using Microsoft and google over a decade ago now because of privacy issues. I’ve also never signed up with accounts for any social media services for this reason as well. I had found a better (not perfect) alternative in apple, which is why I was not very concerned about CSAM, but now that I’ve come to rely on apples products this feels like they’re doing a “bait and switch”. I’d switch phones, but all the others are far worse in terms of privacy, with the exception of a burner phone.

So yes, I can see how many Apple users are up in arms about this.

There is nothing faulty about the logic at all. Apple--and only Apple--is getting skewered in the press. I read a piece in Apple News last night about how "millions" of users are going to leave the Apple ecosystem when they learn about this--and presumably go to Android. That makes no sense if it's clear that everyone else has been doing this server-side for years and, in a sense, Apple is late to the party.

The uproar/expose should be about how cloud provides screen your stuff, and how Apple is part of that club.

Bill Maher declares Apple CSAM tools a 'blatant constitutional breach'

randominternetperson

August 2021

crowley said:

jdw said:

tedz98 said:

The general public has no understanding of what a file hash is.

That really is the entire point which many who are defending Apple's move are ignoring. Nothing else matters, and certainly not the technical way in which CSAM scanning works. That's precisely why I've said in other threads that Apple is now obligated to at the very least DELAY the release until they can do PR damage control and at least try to win more public support. They cannot do that between now and the release of iOS 15, so the feature must be pulled from iOS 15 and delay the release until at least iOS 16. And if they never get public support and the matter seems only to get worse and worse, then the idea may need to be permanently shelved.

This is Tim Cook's call now. It's no doubt a hard call for him because he's played social justice warrior at times in the past, and this no doubt would seem like a step back for him. But it's a call he has to make and make soon.

They should shelve it not because of the merits or demerits of the system, but because the public don't understand it? Spare me the pandering to the ignorant. Proper arguments only.

I will be shocked if Apple doesn't delay the implementation of this until they can in front of the story. No company can afford to ignore a potential firestorm of bad PR even if the main problem is public ignorance. What's the rush?

Apple is full of smart people. They will explain it and do the right things to get the doubters and haters to change their stands. Or, if they can't do that, then shelve the damn feature altogether. They tried to do something to interfere with the disgusting child porn industry, but if "society" doesn't want Apple to interfere, then so be it. It's not like this "feature" was going to sell one additional iPhone.

'Little Voice' is first Apple TV+ series to see cancellation

randominternetperson

August 2021

I enjoyed the show, as did my wife. Having said that it probably isn't in my top 10 Apple TV+ favorites. Most of Apple's shows are "must see TV" in my household. If Apple keeps investing in quality shows, I expect ATV+ to be an easy "must have" for at least tens of millions of people. I just hope that people try it out for Ted Lasso and stick around to try For All Mankind, Trying, Mythic Quest, Mosquito Coast, The Morning Show, Dickinson, Defending Jacob, and the Billie Eilish bio-pic. I hope Foundation is a mega hit.