If you have to self-police like that, your followers don’t believe in the morals you preach.
Reminds me of being asked how I keep from murdering and raping people, since I do not believe in an eternal damnation.
What do you mean being a good person is its own reward?!?
scary people, if religion is only thing that keeps them from doing that, which that question implies.
I think this network will primarily be used by parents to keep their kids from being tempted into sin or discovering that queer people exist
They’re gonna be shocked to find out that Jesus shared his body with 12 other men.
One of which spent an awful lot of time literally cuddling Jesus.
Kissing Jesus on the cheek is totally not gay my dudes! In face, if you wanna kill people who are like Jesus, just kiss em on the cheek! That’ll show the police officers that you’re an American born cisgender hetero white dude who is totally not gay and will send Trump haters to die./s
or discovering that queer people exist
So they’ll never know that people of the same sex fuck each other and continue to perpetuate hate towards them. Now that is sin.
Bet you anything a lot of people using it will be parents forcing their kids to
Nah, if I have kids (once the economy allows me to do so without being on the verge of bankruptcy), I’m giving them a Karri Messenger 1 to start out with, then the Messenger 2: https://karri.io/collections/all
Then when they’re older: Light Phone: https://www.thelightphone.com/
If they absolutely need a phone like the other kids, or when they’re 16-18, they’re getting a phone with GrapheneOS on it.
Which is precisely why this will fail. Christians don’t actually believe anything they preach. They just want to be seen as pious, and a phone carrier doesn’t give them a visible virtue signal.
I remember one of the most religious guys in town bringing in his two week old vcr on a monday. Angrily shouting he wanted to watch a video yesterday after church when the tape got stuck after one minute.
We fixed the vcr and where curiouse… As suspected : porn!
Freud would give you a long diatribe about the distinction between Id, Ego, and Superego.
You can believe a thing is wrong and still do it. Ask any smoker. You can do a thing and wrestle with the psychological consequences afterwards. Ask anyone who has ever felt guilty. You can plan to behave a certain way and become derailed by impulses or anxiety. Ask anyone who has ever succumbed to fear or pain.
Self-policing is a logical response to an illogical/immoral impulse. Tossing cookies out of the cabinet and ice cream out of the fridge is the first step towards dieting. Cancelling your credit card is a technique to curb impulsive spending. How is this any different?
Freud would
Can we please not. I don’t bring up hylomorphism when I talk about physics, so can you please give psychology a similar dignity by treating it like an actual science?
I don’t bring up hylomorphism when I talk about physics
Psychology isn’t a question of physics. The complex machine that is the human brain isn’t some single-action lever with a discrete well-defined input/output relationship. Neither is the human brain some binary circuit governed by logic gates and trivially deterministic sequences.
At some point, you have to approach psychology experimentally. You can’t just wave your hands and assume you know how the black box of the mind is going to work. And you can’t dismiss the accumulated experimental data because you don’t like the person who spearheaded its compilation.
And you can’t dismiss the accumulated experimental data
I don’t. I actually read psychology meta-analyses about accumulated experimental data, and relatively few individual papers are using terms like “superego” (and I can find two meta-analyses, one of which is just describing psychoanalysis). Even then, it’s within a modern framework of psychoanalysis which has evolved over 100 years, not regurgitating what they think “Freud would say”. You’re citing Freud specifically by literally saying “here’s what Freud would say”, so don’t strawman me by pretending I’m anti-experimental data or whatever the fuck.
Psychology isn’t a question of physics.
I’m not saying it is; it’s an emergent phenomenon in a chain thereof. I’m saying it is a science that deserves to actually be taken seriously, not mired in “here’s what someone who barely understood the field as we understand it today would’ve said” like that holds literally any weight about why people behave the way they do.
I’m saying it is a science that deserves to actually be taken seriously
If you’re dismissing the scientific method, you’re not taking science seriously.
Why would they have to block anything? Surely a real Christian wouldn’t be interested in any of that in the first place!
Yes but the devil plays weird tricks so they may be tempted by those.
I like how it’s always Satan playing tricks.
Why isn’t it their god just making sure they’re worth getting into the afterlife?
It gets so so much worse once you unpack this.
Consider these two points:
- God is omnipotent, i.e. He can create or destroy or do anything He wants.
- God is omniscient, i.e. He knows what happened, happens and will happen, and everything about the world He created.
With the powers He has, He:
- Intentionally created humans that would fall for apple trick (as an omniscient being, He knew in advance they will)
- Intentionally created Satan to set the scene
- Dramatically exiled humans from heavens as if it’s their fault (knowing full well it’s His work, not theirs)
So, instead of just making a swarm of loyal creatures, he decided to be playful and make those creatures eternally ashamed of themselves, struggling to earn His approval even when He actively made their lives miserable through cataclysms, genocides, and all sorts of calamities.
He’s literally a celestial “why are you hitting yourself?” bully, expecting to bully billions of people into servitude.
A lot of the Christian god seems to be very human for being a “higher power.”
And if gayness is wrong, why did he make his creatures (non-human) participate in it? Homosexuality has been documented in thousands of species around the globe.
Because only humans are intentionally and thoroughly engineered after the God himself, the rest is decorations and game, obviously.
do not ask why God has urine and semen coming from the same place, where did He take inspiration for a woman and why the hell did He create periods, or a million other curious questions
It makes more sense from the Gnostic mythological perspective. When you frame the Old Testament God as a Trump-type character who ignorantly claims to be all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful, and the only God, because he really doesn’t know any better, then the behavior you see in the Old Testament kind of tracks.
Fair enough
Grindr pre-installed though, right?
Ima just leave this here, but that boi was well hung!
Launching Tuesday, Radiant Mobile’s service will use Israeli cybersecurity firm Allot
Checks out
I imagine CSAM content will be exempt from this block.
I for one am not sure this isn’t just some galaxy brain chess shit to entrap said freaks on part of some good Samaritan.
Just like the biblical laws
It’s tempting to shrug this off as not my business, but if this kind of entity becomes widespread enough, then you can get into situations where a future government, more radical than what we have today, could feasibly mandate people to use these types of networks
Well there’s been this kind of nonsense in Holland for decades. https://www.kliksafe.nl/ It was an invention of the super strict Calvinist Christian community. But it never coloured outside those lines all those years.
Yeah, some countries have better disease control methods than others ;)
Here in the states, it’s a test run. This will be forced on all Americans.
You know who didn’t block sex-workers and Queer people? Jesus.
(Jesus offends the religious authorities more than a few times because of His associations, notably “prostitutes”–with a later tradition holding that the woman to whom Jesus’ return from death was first revealed, Mary Magdalene, was herself a sex-worker; as for Queer followers in the Bible, Jesus makes reference to “eunuchs” and Jesus Himself seems to fit on the asexual scale)
watching porn on a phone? disgusting !
I mean … why use a 6" phone display while my PC has two 26" monitors
Pfft amateur. I only watch porn on my 60 inch TV as loud as possible.
Now look what you made me do (read buy)
I don’t think corporate is going to be happy with me dragging in two 26" monitors
I’d be so afraid of accidentally texting porn to someone.
Christian fundamentalists would prefer to ban a lot of things for everyone. Since they cannot do that, they resort to the next best thing, which is to ban them for their own crowd. But the main objective is to have every device be like that. If this phone network establishes itself in the long run, it will be a big L for all of us.
Which is supremely funny, because the religious states always have the highest porn consumption. Which I guess means they wont get many customers.
Nothing more Christian than hating a group of people. Jesus, famous for all the hate he had.
Why does this even exist? Just configure DNS or child block.
The bulk of Christians can’t even read their damn Bible so what makes you think they could read about how to configure their DNS?
Yup, the average reading level of the USA is at or under 6th grade. Meaning most just take everything thrown at them at face value which tracks.
You think even 5% of the pop knows what DNS is?
Why would they need to block that kind of content to begin with? Wouldn’t the Christians using their network simply not even try to access that material? It’d be like me remodeling my house to keep great white sharks out of my bathtub.
That’s one of the scary things about all this “age verification” bs. Not only is it just mass surveillance, but in “protecting minors” from “adult content” those of us who identify as LGBTQ are labelled as adult content just for existing by these fundamentalists. Entire swaths of people will be banned just for existing, especially once Palantir gets as much data as possible and flags IDs and faces as LGBTQ dissidents.
I swear my phone is already bugged
please, please tell me it runs TempleOS.
PLEASE TELL ME SOMEONE WROTE A 5g STACK FOR TEMPLE OS!
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