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Why do they permit it...? Because they aren't our parents and shouldn't be responsible for all the stupid shit that users could do.

The real question: Perhaps we can politely convince these services to display safety warnings & blur the sensitive bits? Want to be proactive about it: Help develop a plug & play library for services to use to accomplish this feat.

> aren't our parents ...

Doesn't seem to stop them from trying to find naughty photos and block them.

https://www.geek.com/apps/is-it-nude-algorithm-wants-to-find...

If they'll do this for one case like QR codes on boarding passes, then the question and and expectation will arise, why don't they do it for every other possible case?

This is not their job and not their responsibility, period.

Because it would be ridiculous to make Facebook and Twitter part of that security perimeter.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/463/ ("You're doing it wrong")