Japanese cities can disappoint. Visitors stroll around hoping to be awe-struck by the dreamy spectacle of clip-clopping Geisha in their wooden geita, or barreling sumo wrestlers, or high-stockinged ninja girls (à la Kill Bill), and all against a Blade Runner backdrop, only to be confronted with mostly unremitting blandness.
The constants are these: concrete, plastic, more concrete, more plastic, endless construction (one crappy shopping complex or mansion block replacing another), confusion, and noise. It can all seem dizzyingly homogenous.
✍️ Philip Patrick
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The UK government is reportedly considering plans to force tech companies to stop children from viewing, sending, receiving or sharing nude images on phones and other devices.
Most people agree children should be protected online. The concern is how these rules would work in practice.
Silkie Carlo from Big Brother Watch said: “This will only result in population-wide ID checks for all of us to use our phones, tablets and laptops.
These plans would replace efforts for meaningful tech and parental responsibility with performative, authoritarian government control that children can easily circumvent by accessing adult-registered devices.”
People say children will still find ways around the restrictions, while adults could lose more privacy when using everyday technology.