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by smoldesu 1639 days ago
No one here is forcing it upon anyone; the easy solution here is to have the app filter NSFW content by default and then force the user to manually enable it if they do want to engage with the content, which appeases both users. Trying to argue that having your hands tied isn't so bad because your feet are still free is a very slippery slope though, and it's not an argument that ends with anyone's platforms being better. It's especially not an argument when the platform owners have practically infinite resources and bigger fish to fry than "how hard is it to access porn on my iPhone". What we really need to do is take a long, hard look at the devices we have, and decide whether we are the ones who should control them, or third parties. Pretty much every other argument is a strawman.
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You could even make it a system-wide setting that you can control through parental controls, giving you an extra selling point for the "think of the children" crowd.