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The move by Apple Memories to block potentially upsetting content illustrates Big Tech's reach and limits, writes Chrys ... - EurekAlert


An April 2022 story in the tech news site 9to5Mac revealed the Apple was excluding certain Holocaust-themed locations from being included in their iPhone cameras' Memories function. Concordia PhD candidate Chrys Vilvang writes that the tech community greeted the decision with a great deal of wariness, and brought up questions about how tech companies mediate users' interactions with their own content and memories.

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