Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI's iPhone App for Breaking Rules on Distribution
It's nice, but very dangerous.I think Clearview AI should have been "taken down" by the government based on reasonable laws (which I guess don't exist).I don't think Apple/Google/Amazone or any other company should need to find ways to "punish" a bad actor. Nor should they be allowed to do so as this is a abuse of power and a intervention into politics and moral aspects companies should not do. Nor feel the need to do so. (I mean who decides what constitutes as a "bad actor").But then we live in times where the Goverment fail to protect their people (at least in cyberspace). Sometimes even repeatedly try to endanger their people (e.g. some of the anti crypto laws). And most importantly increasingly fail to represent the values of large parts of the population.So I guess it's now the new normal that companies openly (ab-)use their power to push (or hinder) certain thinks which should fall into the area of country governance.Honestly not really anything new, but sad nevertheless.