this is actually a pretty wild headline to appear on the verge frontpage

good on them

Money and mutually assured destruction (blackmail-able info).

They pulled Tumblr over cartoon porn, but using AI to sexually abuse actual women and children is all good, apparently.

Because billionaires like these two, and the corporations that they run, believe they’re largely not accountable to the law nor cultural pressure. They exist in a cloud of privilege that never holds them to account for truth, justice nor anyone’s wellbeing as long as the investors get paid. They are sociopaths.

I mean Grok is literally being used to make CSAM so it should not only be taken down but the law should get involved in any reasonable country.

Do you need a back brace to stand up straight, buddy? Because at this point, I am certain you haven’t got a single vertebra.

Just want to make sure this line gets the attention it deserves.

This was a really good article. The author is rightfully pissed off.

If you have an Apple account take a min to report it.

https://reportaproblem.apple.com/

Everyone watched as Tim Apple bowed and kissed the ring. 'Coward' was already his namesake.

More proof that rules and guidelines only apply to those without power or privilege.

Because they are indeed cowards.

I've been an Apple user since the 80s, I used to be penpals with their CFO Ellen Hancock. Would get care packages from their PR team full of promo items. Exchanged emails with Wozniak and Jobs. I was deeply obsessed.

Obviously things have drifted away from the core "underdog" vibe that Apple exemplified for so long, as their popularity and device adoption surged, they've been less of the Apple I knew.

But Cook's behavior this year has me realizing I've bought my last Apple device. Bring on Linux in every form.

I know I don't matter at all, but it would have taken epic amounts of bullshit to make me sour on them, and here we are.

It appears to demonstrate that it's very much profit over principles and values.

Because money. And the laws are useless against them.

Because billionaires like to stick together because they think that they're better than all of us combined.

Post deepfake porn of them and their wives or husbands on X.

Because, it's NEVER been about protecting kids, or other vulnerable people. The filthy rich don't give one flying fuck about vulnerable people.

Hit their bottom line!

!linuxphones@lemmy.ca

They are not cowards, they don't give a single shit about it. There isn't enough backlash to effect Google so Google doesn't care. That is how corporations deal with every subject. They don't treat child porn differently becuase it's one of the more henious offenses; it's simply another rule broken and it is delt woth the same way as anyother broken law or rule: ignore it or throw money at it and admit no wrong doing.

Fuck Tim Apple and Sundar Google.

All sorts of weird precedents are being set in the shameless kowtowing to the deluded traffic cone

Lawyers are going to be making any kind of weird argument based on some precedent set during this presidency for decades

hopefully more leftists/progressives will wake up about how trusting these companies with "censorship" and having closed source proprietary tech/platforms so entangled in our lives is a bad thing. Most in my experience just complain about how we need to tax them without really thinking about how we can disentangle them from our lives. The past 20 years have been this weird bubble where the largest creators of capital (silicon valley) were not explicitly sided with the auth right wing. People have gotten too use to this especially with personal data and just expecting the state to save them.

I like to think this will cause open source solutions and federated ecosystems to become more popular. Maybe i'm a doomer but we will just get more tiktoks about trump is bad and "late stage capitalism". People I think just will never sacrifice convenience in life, its why authoritarianism seems to always win.

Why won't Apple and Google pull it?

Google will pull it as soon as Apple does, they're a follower not a leader.

Why would respecting the guidelines upset "the right"? Are they all pedophiles?

Apple's keyboard doesn't even have the word pedophile. Kind of ironic isn't it?

Appeasing fascist is always, always going to make them bolder.

But apparently fighting back "is exactly what he wants" so yea, good luck with doing more of nothing "exactly what he wants" .

But Xitter disabled image gen now.

Sure, yes, with any niche app, they would've pulled it from the store and never allowed it again.

Sadly I'm hoping they do it so Musk will poor money into allowing side loaded apps in Android and iOS permanently

If you want to get it banned, make some deepfake porn of them and their family members and watch how fast it disappears.

Time to spread vids of Cook and Pichai 69ing

this was as close as I could get without burning too many rainforests--maybe people with better AI skillz can get an actual image of them fucking

Sometimes I have the impression X is doing everything to be removed to the App Store so Musk can sue and get rid of the guidelines. And as we can see here we can do even CSAM on his social network and no one do anything, this should be a matter of law, not a private company like Google or Apple.

X is a propaganda tool. If they remove that then they also risk opposing the larger objectives of the USA.