Tumblr removed from Apple App Store over abuse images (2018)

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46275138

71•dmschulman•1mo ago

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kemayo•1mo ago

2018 -- I'd assume that this is posted today as a pointed jab at X getting quite different treatment despite Grok being used to make child porn and other revenge-porn style content.

e.g. https://www.wired.com/story/x-grok-app-store-nudify-csam-app...

EDIT: wow, I have never seen the score on a comment I posted fluctuate up and down this wildly before. :P

myko•1mo ago

Yep. Absolutely shocking that Cook hasn't already threatened Twitter (or maybe he has and we just don't know?).

Analemma_•1mo ago

It's not shocking at all: threatening Twitter has political implications that banning Tumblr never did, and Cook personally delivered a golden statue to appease the Mad King. I wouldn't expect any action from the app stores.

iknowstuff•1mo ago

They’re simply calculated. They know if they do it Republicans are gonna come down on them hard

ryandrake•1mo ago

Yea, I'd expect the opposite: If anything, they'll add a new "underage nudity" category to the App Store to appease this administration.

Nextgrid•1mo ago

Flagged for moderator attention - not because of your comment but because the date is very pertinent to the article and should be added to the title (please flag mine too).

ryandrake•1mo ago

Was going to submit that one, but I figured it was pointless. The flaggers would take it down within minutes. I submitted this one[1] earlier, and it got predictably flagged into oblivion within 10 minutes by the Elon Defense Brigade.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545962

iamkonstantin•1mo ago

Yup, comments on the wired article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548451

hn1986•1mo ago

not just that but you can easily find and see hardcore porn on Twitter, which against Apple and Google's own rules on the app store. But Musk gets a free pass, of course because double standards

lysace•1mo ago

I heard that Firefox and Chrome for iOS can both be used to consume some extremely gruesome material. If I understand correctly, they don't even attempt to block e.g. CSAM.

eddythompson80•1mo ago

That’s not the gotcha you think it’s.

lysace•1mo ago

Let’s hear about why it’s not.

duxup•4w ago

You might want to make your case first, it’s likely obvious to everyone else what the difference is.

razingeden•1mo ago

I’m all in for banning them both from the App Store 0:-)

mullingitover•1mo ago

The subtext here is obviously the contrast with the notorious CSAM and deepfakes app formerly known as twitter enjoying first class app status in all app stores.

I think that the App Store status is understating the seriousness of the criminal activity, however. X is creating and distributing massive amounts of deepfake porn content that is punishable by hard prison time in about twenty states, and yet none of the ringleaders or their accomplices have been charged.

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