They can't pull every app that could possibly show nudity, instagram, Flickr and many others would disappear too.
Instagram deletes accounts that post nudes and those that are deemed "sexual," even if there is no nudity.
500px's terms of service specifically prohibit uploading "pornography;" flickr has no such prohibition.
You can't access 500px on Apple store computers, either. Maybe Apple is not opposed to nudity but to the tacky soft porn on 500px.
So, artistic nudity = soft porn? What would you call the gangbang photos and genital close-ups that proliferate on flickr.
Totally agree with you, flickr is full of nude pics, sometimes pretty disgusting.
Yup. Plus, flickr, for the sake of promoting file size over image quality, brutally-reduces the quality of images posted to their site, even as a pro member. 500px handles image resizing much more gently.
A search for "dani olivier" in the app store will turn up bunch of books with nothing but nude photography, none of which have the slightest artistic value.
Or just go here:
Photo de Nu
aaah so this is why people bother with these apps...
i always wondered why sharing on facebook or twitter wasn't enough for many people.
Perhaps, as a photographer, whose work does include art nudes, I want to manage my various media presences, while away from my computer
or
GASP show potential clients and collaborators the work I've done in the past, in a slick, easy-to-use app.
What if you are a professional photographer who owns an iPhone and happens to take/view/participate in classy nude photography?
Apple doesn't need to be the cops here. Jeez.
Or an iPad -- I hear those are useful for photo-making people, too.
Don't even try it. Any professional photographer that needs nude photos for his/her career isn't rely sorely on their personal communication device to provide such material.
The annoyed responses from the people on here wreak of the horny teen that relied on his/her phone to enjoy naked photos so they can hide it from their parents.
First, when I'm not within range of a WiFi network, I think it's entirely reasonable that I should be able to use my iPhone or my iPad to use my media in any way that I see fit, especially if that helps earn me new clients or express ideas to potential collaborators.
What business is it of you (or Apple) if my work includes artistic nudity? And the thematic medium should certainly not be the basis for judging whether or not art has merit -- particularly if you've never laid eyes on the artwork.
Second, wreak = cause; reek = stink.
I'm a photographer on 500px, and my portfolio has nudity in it.
This idea of protecting someone from artistic expressions in this area is a little ridiculous. People can make their own choices about what they see and what they don't.
500px puts a warning on every image that is even remotely 'adult' (even implied nudity) and you have to click through that to see the image. The only exception to this is when a photographer like me uses 500px for a hosting site that links directly via your domain (and effectively suppresses the 500px logic and allows the photographer to present their photos as they like).
I recall buying a censored fashion magazine in the app store - which I thought was pretty stupid, and I asked for my money back.
This is pretty silly stuff.
Precisely.
It's a matter of a single, privately controlled source of content (regardless of whether it's user sourced or not) vs. unmanaged content (the entirety of the web).
If someone reported child porn on Instagram, Flickr, etc., it would (or let's say it should) fall under the same consideration.
Like you already point out, there's some process and procedure considerations (about exposure, content auditing, etc.) that are probably very tricky, and 500PX just got caught up in dealing with it.
Funny enough, one of my startups is dealing with image content, and we've just started working through all the legal copy to understand this very same issue (our legal already has a headache over it
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There is child porn on Flickr -- it doesn't show up all that frequently, but when it does, I've reported it. (Whether the staff acts on the report is another matter, entirely.)
I've never seen anything nearly as raunchy on 500px as I come across daily on Flickr (people seem to think that just because you make art nudes, that you must want a close-up view of their sex lives and they bombard my flickrmail with it) -- there's some seriously revolting content on flickr, that's allowed by the ToS, but is prohibited on 500px.
