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Apple Removes Vine from 'Editor’s Choice' for Featuring Pornographic Content
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I guess It's all about perspective. At the end of the day I think It is filth,
That's fine. It's your opinion. I can imagine that many people do not see it that way.
I would say that is not accurate. There is lots of studies out there about couple that watch porn together. That it's only watch by people who can't get laid is a stereotype.
As they should have been. I would expect the same thing if they were doing other things around minors like drinking. Time and place. There are lots of legal things to do that one should't engage in many workplaces. Private business can set their own standards there.
Trying to frame it as a "think of the children" argument gets us nowhere though. After all, kids have access to all sorts of things that adults also have access to. If you (g) want to keep your kids away from adult material (which is always going to exist no matter what), you educate your kids and teach them properly about what is age appropriate. I wouldn't let my kids watch porn anymore than I would give them a pack of smokes or a fifth of whisky. I wouldn't even take them to R rated movies. Of course I wouldn't try to ban such items in public either.
Lets be honest here. Lets not just try and target easy scapegoats and blame them for societies ills when we should be looking at society and try to avoid problems. You want to know why kids like violent video games? Parent's don't take the time to consider that their kids shouldn't be playing them and treat video games like babysitters and end up just buying whatever their children ask for. Trying to suppress things like this just makes them forbidden fruit and makes them more desirable. And making it less socially acceptable just makes people hide it more which increases the potential for problems since individuals never identify their own problems.
Tired of Apple playing nanny with people, selecting lifestyles for me in a way even a church would not dare doing. And this from a company that last innovated phones in 2008 or so.
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What? Last I checked, Apple doesn't tell me what data I can or cannot access via safari. I can go to whatever website I wish to go to. About the only thing they restrict is the Apps you can buy but that's their right as a private company. And you know what? Most people don't really mind.
I don't know what you are talking about with "lifestyles" since they don't have anything to do with how I live my life.
Well kids use computers too, don't they? So does porn not have a place there either?
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Exactly! My parents didn't restrict my access to the internet, and thus I'd discovered porn by age 11. It didn't screw me up, make me a porn addict or anything. I'm perfectly fine now, because my access to porn wasn't restricted, so I don't have an unhealthy desire/obsession with it.
Private company doesn't mean that they should have so much control over what people do or don't with devices that are an important part of people's life. If Apple wants to protect children they can use parental restrictions, and that's a good thing, but It's offensive to tell adults what they can or can't download when it's all legal.
Instead of censure, Apple should try to come out with a phone that's innovative instead of just being a bit longer than the one they had already man years ago.
I'm glad I stopped using IOS, and I love the alternatives.
Wow, 6 seconds of porn? Is that enough for some people?? -_- Get real Apple ffs, who gives a damn.
Of course they do. They blocked Flash, which means the only way to do proper playlisting so you can sell advertising inventory or secure video delivery so you can sell access was to distribute via applications. That had a major economic effect on what people could or couldn't offer you in Safari.
They also, for example, control the push notification framework. Want to run an online dating site or social network for kinksters that does something as innocuous as push notifications of new messages? Blocked.
Jesus Christ people, you have really derailed this thread. Apple is a POS for taking away one app because you could search for porn and not this. This app has porn, what I consider to be true porn; even at 6 seconds.
I'm surprised this is still in the App Store. I have the app and the porn doesn't offend me because its not required that I search for it. The editor's pick ending up in the feed is worse than 500 px any day of the week. Apple needs to eat crow and return one app or get rid of the other.
I'm surprised this is still in the App Store. I have the app and the porn doesn't offend me because its not required that I search for it. The editor's pick ending up in the feed is worse than 500 px any day of the week. Apple needs to eat crow and return one app or get rid of the other.
I was talking about the internet specifically. Apple by the way never "blocked" flash. Adobe never offered it and Apple never designed it and for good reason. But not offering a plugin doesn't equal controlling what data you can get access to - that's a technical limitation.
Application framework is 100% private and has nothing to so with what I was talking about. I specifically said that they control the application market which they have the right to do.
My point is that Apple doesn't "nanny" the internet via safari at all. They do not limit the websites that you can access. Not all of them may work but Apple doesn't stop you from getting to them.
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Apple doesn't censor Safari. They censor the App Store - they are a private company and can legally do that. You know that going in and that is a choice that they have every right to make. It is not offensive to define the terms. Nobody has to buy an iPhone. That is a choice. Apple censors their private App store because they want to create and sell a specific experience. It's their rodeo.
Oh yes! Its the "Apple doesn't innovate" argument nonsense.
Good for you! Thats how the free market is supposed to work!
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Oh yes! Its the "Apple doesn't innovate" argument nonsense.
They did innovate in 2007 with the Iphone, and then with the Ipad and OSX, but when have you seen innovation with their phones in the last years? Most people I know consider Iphones to be totally boring.
They did innovate in 2007 with the Iphone, and then with the Ipad and OSX, but when have you seen innovation with their phones in the last years? Most people I know consider Iphones to be totally boring.
I have these:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/11/65772
... and the other article I unfortunately saved nowhere and I can't actually find... it was a blog post on cracked.com which is where I got the two week challenge to determine whether you're an addict or not in my initial post. It wasn't the most rigorous of studies but it showed that somewhere around 90% of men and 30% of women are incapable of keeping themselves from viewing porn for two or more weeks (as I recall they found 10 days was when most people break down.) If you're incapable of not doing it, then you're addicted to it.
But that's besides the point. I'm not proposing that porn should be banned anymore than alcohol is. I am saying that viewing porn shouldn't be something that you can easily accidentally do. When I download an app from the app store, I should be confident that opening the app and tapping on something labeled a "staff pick" won't be porn. I should have to actively want and seek it out.
I don't know much about vine but I presume pornographic images aren't allowed on it anyway? Most social sites dont allow it.
*edit* Ah nope, apparently nudity is fine on there.
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As crazy as you are, I do have to agree with this, just nothing else you've said.
*edit* Ah nope, apparently nudity is fine on there.
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As crazy as you are, I do have to agree with this, just nothing else you've said.
And that's precisely where I stopped reading. I can't believe there are actually people thinking this or even taking bs like this seriously outside of Iran or something. Really baffles me.
Why don't you Google Porn-Induced Sexual Dysfunction and educate yourself before spouting off about the Iranian Revolution.
Because I don't know anybody with this Dysfunction, there are worse problems in the world. And it's not Apple's job to fix this.
Apple isn't trying to take your precious porn away. Nobody could even if they wanted to.
They have storefronts, the App Store and iTunes Store, and they don't want to sell porn in those storefronts. Just like JCPenny and Best Buy and just about every other retailer in the world. Most retailers want nothing to do with selling porn.
Not sure why that's so hard for people.