A recent iPhone software update is quietly changing how millions of people in the UK access the internet — and most people don’t yet realise the scale of what’s happened. With the release of iOS 26.4, Apple has introduced mandatory age and identity checks at the operating system level. In simple terms, your iPhone may […]
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Private devices worked so long as the west had some sort of interest in maintaining the illusion of "freedom of speech" and other such things to promote their liberalism and hegemony to the world and their own citizenry. Now that it's time for hard power, for crushing dissent like pro-Palestine movements, cracking down on people's access to how much better things are getting in China while things get worse for them that is no longer an option.
This is a political problem. You can't technology your way out of laws without living entirely apart from society as an outlaw.
Private devices worked so long as the west had some sort of interest in maintaining the illusion of "freedom of speech" and other such things to promote their liberalism and hegemony to the world and their own citizenry. Now that it's time for hard power, for crushing dissent like pro-Palestine movements, cracking down on people's access to how much better things are getting in China while things get worse for them that is no longer an option.