(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.
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).
Can I ask for clarity on why calling the DPRK “North Korea” is racist? Is it just on the grounds of legitimizing the Samsung Republic occupation zone w.r.t. the atrocities of the Korean war, or is there another reason?
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.
Gonna start calling the US “North Cuba” because cArDiNaL dIrEcTiOn
North Mexico would problem be closer but still doesn’t work.
sure, go for it.
although I think it’s pretty obvious that it’s not comparable here.
it’s called the Korean peninsula. One country is on the north, one is on the south. pretty hard to argue that North Korea and South Korea don’t logically follow from that.
shut up cracker
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.
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.
Ah the “I have a black friend” argument
It’s cool to use this to discount my personal direct experience but I don’t think it’s a strong counter.
Dating somebody typically means you get to know them and their cultural background really really well. It’s extremely relevant here whether you like that or want to discount it
Your personal direct experience knowing someone that does not live in the place you are trashing. Just stop dude, accept that you and her too are subject to an ocean of propaganda demonizing the DPRK for ideological reasons. Also it’s just a really weird way to go about it considering the other problematic aspects of westerners fetishizing asian women that DEFINITELY does not clear of the racism allegation.
I’m not ok with being called racist. I’m sorry that you think I should just sit and take that but that’s ridiculous. You have no right.
The burden of proof lies on you for making an extraordinary claim without evidence.
Then don’t say racist shit.
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)
Hello @cole@lemdro.id you seem to have conveniently ignored my response?
Does every american have equally valid input on america and its politics?
When the next person says “I know someone from Britain and they said London is a no go zone” should I take them automatically seriously? Should I take their opinion on migrants and small boats seriously or should I maybe do some more serious investigation?
You dated a Korean, so what? Why should anyone take this one person’s take over serious investigation of the matter?
It’s not an intentional snub, I just answered this question in a different reply.
I don’t know with enough certainty to list out all the issues, but the biggest one that sticks out to me is information control.
The government restricts citizens access to the Internet (among other things). I have talked to people from Russia, people from China, etc online. But I have never talked to someone from North Korea and that is a pretty big red flag for me.
I pretty strongly believe that anybody who tries to control the flow of information amongst supposedly free people is not a “good guy”. Yes, this includes the United States, UK, China, etc. Many do so to some extent and I am against all of them for that.
But, none so draconian seeming as the DPRK.
And how many people from the DPRK have you actually tried to speak to? There are many in China and many in Russia, some as naturalised citizens, not to mention tens of thousands work officially in Africa.
You seem to accept that information about the DPRK is unreliable, but rather than allow this to create a position of neutrality in yourself you seem to instead default to vibes. The problem with defaulting to vibes is that those are specifically what propaganda is effective at manipulating. The vibes about the DPRK that you have are entirely a construction of western media and comment sections.
When I don’t know about something the first thing I do is take myself to the most neutral position possible - “I don’t know”. That is the starting point from which facts should be fed.
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