Yet in principle the social benefit described (amplifying voices of the unheard) isn’t entirely out of reach for social media as a category, especially if we can escape the era of closed platforms. Open alternatives are still relatively new. There is a plausible future in which closed platforms are left behind and we become much more capable of keeping mass public manipulation in check.

BoTh SiDeS .… voting won’t work …. what “needs to be done”

Wow. Can you guys at least vary your scripts a little bit? And maybe don’t try to hit all the buzz phrases in a single comment. Your target audience never reads that far.

Agreed, I’m pretty used to security key unlocks and still wouldn’t want that friction on a personal device.

Also just for completeness, since I forgot to mention: enabling stolen device protection and findmy/mdm to enable remote wipe.

Disclaimer: I only use iPhones for security testing, so this is more from related literature rather than first-hand experience.

IIRC the hardening unattended reboot could offer is already covered better by options like disabling biometric unlock, security key 2FA, enabling lockdown mode, enabling advanced data protection, disabling iCloud, disabling USB accessories, and so forth. Also unattended reboot seems like an easy prank vector or foot gun to render a device permanently inaccessible (i.e., device always reboots immediately after pin entry) requiring recovery mode reset or restore to fix.

If similar to equivalent state regs, when access to customers residing in that market is gated by compliance and subject to lawsuits or ban, the first phase of business-side operations change is immediately setting up minimum compliance workflow like a special webpage coupled with countermeasures (like proof of residency; IP historically difficult in court but has been used successfully for state-specific age gating) and boundary testing cycles. With especially large markets, however, the overhead associated with maintaining multiple separate workflows fails the efficiency test and the workflows are merged, which is how everyone tends to benefit from pro-consumer laws like GDPR.

I was going to say, this only stops children with no techie friends. Pirates use seedboxes already. Everyone else knows how to double hop.

You also don’t technically need DNS to access websites but even if you did the constant influx of fake slop and scam sites filling search results of Google and Bing should be some indication of the difficulty of maintaining and enforcing a blacklist.

But this is why many switch to new systems like IPFS or return to old ones like Usenet.

I think this may overestimate how unwilling the average community member is to operate pirate radio

ETA: I do believe in sharing the airwaves responsibly, since bandwidth is limited, I might just feel a bit defiant towards the current FCC