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iPhone's New Parental Controls Block Sex Ed, Allow Violence and Racism

vendredi 19 octobre 2018, 02:45 , par Slashdot/Apple
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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