Tumblr removed from Apple App Store over abuse images (2018) (opens in new tab)

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71 pointsdmschulman2mo ago15 comments

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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

ryandrake2mo 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

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Nextgrid2mo 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).

iamkonstantin2mo ago

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

myko2mo ago

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

iknowstuff2mo ago

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

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Analemma_2mo 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.

hn19862mo 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

mullingitover2mo 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.

lysace2mo 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.

eddythompson802mo ago

That’s not the gotcha you think it’s.

lysace2mo ago

Let’s hear about why it’s not.

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razingeden2mo ago

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

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kemayo2mo 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

ryandrake2mo ago

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

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Nextgrid2mo 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).

iamkonstantin2mo ago

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

myko2mo ago

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

iknowstuff2mo ago

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

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Analemma_2mo ago

hn19862mo 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

mullingitover2mo 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.

lysace2mo 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.

eddythompson802mo ago

That’s not the gotcha you think it’s.

lysace2mo ago

Let’s hear about why it’s not.

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razingeden2mo ago

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

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