(Not sure if this is worldwide or only in some countries)
Updating to iOS 26.4DB2 will put your phone into a parental-restricted mode with adult websites blocked on all browsers, warning prompts every time you try to send or receive an explicit image on a messaging app, and all social media apps blocked on the App Store (in Australia)
The settings to disable this mode are locked off until you verify your age either with a credit card, photo ID, or though information Apple already has (like the age of your account).
I’ve been an apple user my entire adult life but this might finally be the thing that forces me off the platform. Do any other long term apple users have some tips about migrating? I’ve heard Ashai Linux is pretty good on mac hardware these days and I’ve been thinking about GrapheneOS for a while.
I think if you can’t admit the obvious problems with the DPRK then there is no conversation to be had here.
China, I understand. North Korea? I do not.
I certainly do not think that calling me racist out of the blue is helping your case, either.
The problems you’ve only ever absorbed through the lens of extremely dubious western media reporting whose sources for reporting come from either the CIA or NIS(formerly KCIA but renamed to make it less obvious the south is an occupied state) ?
You say “obvious” the same way the Dothraki say “It is known”. You consider this information obvious because a lot of people say it, you never consider whether a lot of people only say it because they too see a lot of other people saying it. You do not know the facts at all.
EVERYWHERE has its problems.
And yes, that is the DPRK too.
I want to establish that it’s even worth talking by making sure that y’all could budge on anything. otherwise this is a waste of time.
I’m deeply open to new perspectives, and I love to hear them - they widen my world. But I have some experiences already that generally conflict with the messaging here.
I’ve dated a Korean and been to Korea which has influenced me quite a lot.
Sure, I don’t deny that. The issue here is what are they? You don’t know. I’ve actually visited and I could talk about some, but they’d be quite different to what you would talk about I suspect.
Koreans in the south typically react with surprise whenever anyone on the left refers to what the US did in Korea as a genocide. Most of them have barely any knowledge of the five “republics” before the existing one, the sixth. Unless your partner was a trade unionist within the ROK I generally wouldn’t trust them to know what they’re talking about, much like I don’t trust the average liberal or magat to know what they’re talking about when it comes to the US, its history of barbarism or how it interacts with the world today. The trade unionists within ROK however do know their shit, I’ve spoken to a few of them and they’re cool comrades (but are legally not allowed to say they are)
Buddy you are being racist in this comment what are the “obvious problems with the DPRK”?
WHAT ARE THEY?
Try to explain this without dropping some bullshot racist propaganda you have been fed.
i mean, everything else aside… if the DPRK is so great, why do they maintain such a tight grasp on what the citizens can access and share information wise?
it’s generally not positive to restrict people’s access to information. people there are not on the internet
Well congratulations you are getting less racist. Now keep going and examine what you have against the DPRK. By the way, the fact that you call it “north Korea” is inherently racist. You should listen to the Blowback episodes about the Korean war. What you understand as “south Korea” is not a separate country but is a dictatorship in an occupied region set up because the west cannot allow the legitimate government of the DPRK to survive because of old holdovers of “containment” during the cold ware where anything and everything was “justified” as long as it prevented the horrifying spread of communism (aka good things that threaten global corporate profits).
I find it hard to believe that “North Korea” is racist.
That’s literally the cardinal direction of that country.
Other things…
Thinking South Korea is a dictatorship but North Korea is sunshine and rainbows is… delusional imo.
I’m not sure if you’ve been to either but I have to assume no.
I’ve never seen any western propaganda against the DPRK that wasn’t at best implicitly racist (and it’s often explicitly so), so the people that watch it and swallow it without question are likely to be racist in the same fashion.
shut up cracker