Story? What Story...
users ask about escorts, get information on escorts...
a real story would have been them censoring the results and having Siri come back with something like "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that" ...
Voice-activated digital assistant Siri has discovered a rebellious streak which could put it on collision course with the Chinese authorities, after appearing to answer user requests on where to find pornography and prostitutes. It seems Siri is a lot more worldly wise than its pre-teen age would have us believe, apparently …
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I beg to differ. Most search engines that operate in China *do* censor results, so if Siri doesn't then that's newsworthy. I wonder where Siri is getting her information from. I wonder if the local plod are already using her to track down down people who they regard as criminals.
"Jobs was ridiculous."
In uncountable ways, but he wasn't stupid, he realised an App Store stuffed with tits wasn't going to sit well with all those parents that buy their kids iStuff, If people want porn, well that's what the Internet is for, they don't need Apps to fap.
All you need to do to be free from porn, is to not look for it.
I've been online since ~1997, and despite seeing lots of porn, the number of times I've found porn without looking for it is in the single digits.
I imagine the kind of people who want freedom from porn being like so:
...remembers one of those disgustingly explicit hip-hop videos he caught a glimpse of in the mall...
"Lord, forgive me for what I am about to do."
...fires up imagefap.com
...five minutes later, deleting history, washing hands, offering prayers for forgiveness, and promises to never be so weak again.
I never got why China cracks down on pornography and Prostitution...
It just pushes the real criminals to get involved in it rather than it being a managed industry,
even the UK's laws are too harsh on the profession..
If brothels were legal and licensed, then they could be policed easier, and illegal brothels would become fewer..
If there is a legal alternative, then people will use it in preference to the illegal one, i.e. there would be less of a market for trafficking of girls if brothels were legal & monitored (Plus the advantage of tax income from the businesses!!, I wonder how many prostitutes/escorts currently pay tax on their earnings...)
"If brothels were legal and licensed, then they could be policed easier, and illegal brothels would become fewer.."
Brothels are legal in parts of Nevada but note that they are not legal in Las Vegas. Oddly child prostitution and human trafficking is a fairly big problem in Las Vegas. It almost seems the ban creates the illicit market where the real problem activity can flourish. I'm sure there's a saying about paving a road with good intentions and a hand basket or something like that.
...that previously "walled garden" approaches to networking and payment has actually lead to lots of porn constantly being advertised. For example I somewhere have an old "Datex-P" magazine from Germany which was full of advertisements for Porn-Sites on "Datex-P" (old walled garden online service in Germany).
Same goes for "premium rate phonecalls" or SMS services. Porn is always way up on the list.
Most women;s hairdresser staffs have extra curricular work.
I stay in a teacher's apartment on school grounds when in NanNing and I have to run a gauntlet of five hairstylist shops and everyone of them solicits business from men passing by.
A but embarrassing for the female teacher but she is used to it.
If prostitutes are as easy to find as asking Siri, why aren't the cops doing this and busting them? It would seem to make their jobs a lot easier!
And why not crack down on Baidu for making this information available, as Siri has to be getting her information from somewhere and I'm pretty sure it isn't stored on Apple servers or found with Wolfram Alpha.