What’s an acceptable level of online child sexual abuse, blackmail, and sextortion? How many teen suicides must happen before someone acts? Most parents would say the answer is obvious: zero.
Apple doesn’t seem to agree. Despite serving as the constant digital companion for millions of American kids, the company has done nothing to rein in the iMessage app — a tool that now functions as an unregulated playground for child predators. Apple has shrugged off the problem while iMessage becomes the wild west of child exploitation: unchecked, unreported, and deadly.
It’s long past time for Apple to confront the truth: Its inaction empowers predators. And that makes the company complicit and accountable.
You wouldn’t leave a toddler alone by the pool. You wouldn’t hand your 9-year-old the keys
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