The #unitedarabemirates have successfully #pressured #amazon into reducing the #promotion and #sale of #lgbt items, including #books and #flags https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2..
#apple is going much further: https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0806.s.. Apparently they now #scan user devices for #illegal #content and report to the #police . I can already imagine an attack where somebody sends/serves an illegal image for example, an #iphone #downloads it and then the scan #flags it. #aardvark points at this being a type of #fascism - but in modern times we see this actively being used in #communist Countries like #china ! It's clearly #authoritarian ...