Apple Will Not Distribute 'Porn' and Other Inappropriate Content

[alchemistmuffin]

Okay, many people complaining about lack of porn on iTunes app store...

HAVE YOU HEARD OF AN APP CALLED SAFARI?

BILLIONS OF PORN, WITH NO NEED FOR SEPARATE APPS!

Besides, many porn sites are, and this is true, making an iPhone version of the site that is accessible via Safari.

Just my five cents here.

Otherwise jailbreak it (and risk having your iPhone blow up due to malfunction) and download porn app via Cydia store.

 

[Stiss]

this is a age old argument!

Although boobs is not porn I don't think it's needed in the App store.

At the same time, a little boobage never hurt anyone, after all if a kid wants to see boobs they can go on the web, or even buy a news paper!

 

[jbernie]

Perhaps parents should start doing their jobs rather than leaving it to company policies and governments to regulate. I can imagine peoples parents protesting outside a government office or a cooperation about high morals. while their son Timmy is playing Tune In Tokyo with the neighbor girl or that EMO boy with the mascara whose parents are too busy fighting global warming and gay rights riding the hippy bus to Washington D.C. is sucking another EMO kids cock (I don't mind gays but I think the parents should be a little closer to home to support THEM)

I think the first 6 words of your post summed up the whole situation quite well, a lot of parents want someone else to do their job and when they don't they have a need to sue.

 

[dAlen]

lol - wonder what you guys would do if you moved/visited Austria and road your bike on the path by the danube river where grandma and grandpa willingly walk around stark naked.

Isnt it time to get passed the "he showed his willie" and "she showed her nipple"...Its called a body. And the app showed a mix of girls with clothes and not clothes. From what I understand that is it...whats the big deal?

The whole bit of making an object out of someone is due to the strict mentality we have about our bodies...we have made an object out of it - "and they were ashamed they were naked"

Heck, I think we should be able to go to work in the nude if we so please, really not that big of a deal guys. Making it a big deal...makes it a big deal...for those its a big deal for. lol

laws, etc. are needed for those who remain 'unconscious', pick up Eckhart Tolles audio book and take life a bit lighter, its fun.

Peace

dAlen

p.s. - kids were in the same room as their siblings when they were born. [we didnt have anyone to leave them with that we knew, so we took them with us.] So Im not with the hide kids from this, that...time to educate, you dont educate things turn into mythos and then a whole cult theology of fear is made from it.

 

[iphoneftw]

lol i found this funny on google trends

 

[Anomalus]

This kind of stuff always cracks me up. Showing women in bikinis posing provocatively and artistic nudity always seems to terrify Americans, while showing killing and mayhem and doctors picking through human remains while cracking jokes on the autopsy table seems the norm (just turn the tv on any channel in prime time). Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy violence and mayhem probably a little more than most folks (USMC Force Recon 8 years), but enough already.

True. Although if you browse the internet, be it only 10 minutes, the chance of you stumbling upon porn is much greater than that of you stumbling upon violence and mayhem. So in a way the TV and the Internet balance each other.

 

[windywoo]

Pornography is for losers.
Any guy that watches it, or sadly... collects it; I will not go near, even with those long gloves for handling nuclear waste!

They are horrible people, out of touch with reality, and worse of all... they suck at sex!!
In fact... so many of them are too scared to even have sex, they are so self-critical, or they can't get it up without watching pornography. So fluffing lame!!

Glad Apple made a stand, and hope they continue it. Just like Blockbuster and Nintendo.

Plenty of confident men watch porn, they just don't tell you when they do. Lots of couples watch porn together. Should I call you a slut because you have sex with lots of men out of marriage? Not so fun to have your sexual habits questioned is it?

 

[Torajima]

So apple shuts the door on apps aimed at adults...

This isn't about porn folks. Nudity is NOT porn... have none of you watched an R rated movie?

Most of the developers I have talked to are NOT happy by this decision. Not because they want to do pornographic apps, but because they could create mature games aimed at adults without worrying about their games getting refused. Games with mature themes, realistic violence, sexual innuendo, etc.

Once again developers will shy away from creating such apps, as they are simply too risky to develop.

 

[Torajima]

Can you please send me a link? Because I'm having trouble finding the "Porn" section of the iTunes store.

Just do a search for rap music. Most of it is more explicit/pornographic than the app in question.

 

[Becordial]

It's bad when the state tells us what is appropriate or not, but it's even worse when a company does it.

At least the state is democratic and has some depth in thinking about such issues. However, a company determining what's appropriate when it has no mechanism of asking us what is, or isn't right, is far from something that should be defended.

The reality is most phone and pay TV companies provide a range of hosted adult services and happily take money for it. They just make sure that their marketing and presentation is responsible.

 

[sum1]

Thank You Apple!

Thank You Apple! Keep it Clean and useful.

 

[corinhorn]

It's bad when the state tells us what is appropriate or not, but it's even worse when a company does it.

At least the state is democratic and has some depth in thinking about such issues. However, a company determining what's appropriate when it has no mechanism of asking us what is, or isn't right, is far from something that should be defended.

A business isn't an open community or a democracy. They have no obligation to take votes from customers. It's a frickin' business! They made a business decision not to allow boobies in the app store. If you want boobs, there are a myriad of other methods to do so.

 

[Becordial]

A business isn't an open community or a democracy. They have no obligation to take votes from customers. It's a frickin' business! They made a business decision not to allow boobies in the app store. If you want boobs, there are a myriad of other methods to do so.

I totally agree, business isn't and should not be a democracy. It'd be dysfunctional if they were. In terms of customers not influencing things though it's hard not to detect a degree of moral conservatism from their community is influencing their business interests. I wonder if Apple was European whether they'd take the same view.

 

[Wotan31]

Apple's inconsistency is what is at issue with this app. They allow explicit material through the itunes store, yet the block it in the app store. They need to set their standards, whatever they may be, and stick to them. Applying the rules inconsistently is turn off for everyone, developers and end-users alike.

 

[Wotan31]

If you want boobs, there are a myriad of other methods to do so.

But what if I want boobs on my phone?

 

[bigmc6000]

Do reputable book and video stores shelve adult material, including pornography?

Just wondering, has anyone read LOST GIRLS by Alan Moore?

Depends on the store and if they do they are almost always behind the counter so you had to show ID to get it. If Apple went with this I'd fine with it - not just some parental control thing but have people enter in their Drivers License number and contract with the states to get that info. Basically it's the same premise as checking ID at the point of sale...

 

[iMaggot]

So movies like "American Pie" are acceptable in iTunes, but an App that shows boobs is unacceptable ?

Lol wow that is dumb.

 

[Jason Lee]

Depends on the store and if they do they are almost always behind the counter so you had to show ID to get it. If Apple went with this I'd fine with it - not just some parental control thing but have people enter in their Drivers License number and contract with the states to get that info. Basically it's the same premise as checking ID at the point of sale...

Every place where I've worked and shopped (Barnes and Noble and FYE) never placed pornographic/adult things behind the counter. They're shelved just like all other books/DVDs, but just not next to the Disney stuff.

Should also mention that nudity can mean pornography, depending on the intent of the author.

As defined in the Oxford dictionary, pornography is:

printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings.

 

[freediverdude]

@imaggot- yes, and now with the 3.0 software, you're even allowed to download American Pie directly on the iPhone, yet not allowed to have an app with some topless women in it.

 

[bigmc6000]

Evert place where I've worked and shopped (Barnes and Noble and FYE) never placed pornographic/adult things behind the counter. They're shelved just like all other books/DVDs, but just not next to the Disney stuff.

And if you went to purchase it they would just let anybody buy it?

I'm 27 and some lady just freakin' ID'd me at Wal-Mart for tylenol. Saying it's in the store is the equivalent of looking it up on Safari where as selling it to anyone who managed to make it in the store is like putting in the App store - they still ID you at time of purchase.

EDIT: Also, from what I can recall, aren't nude magazines normally bagged with logos over the nudity so people can't see anything unless you open the bag? And aren't they, usually, on the stop shelf and, generally, out of the reach of little kids? See where I'm going with this?

 

[pesawyer]

Parent's should do their job......

Absolutely, Parents let's hear from you. Chime in with what a great step you think this is from Apple. One less place we have to worry about our children.

Banning porn from the Internet should be the next step. Then we can work on the TV shows. Then we can work on the magazines. Then we can work on the.........

 

[Jason Lee]

And if you went to purchase it they would just let anybody buy it?

I'm 27 and some lady just freakin' ID'd me at Wal-Mart for tylenol. Saying it's in the store is the equivalent of looking it up on Safari where as selling it to anyone who managed to make it in the store is like putting in the App store - they still ID you at time of purchase.

EDIT: Also, from what I can recall, aren't nude magazines normally bagged with logos over the nudity so people can't see anything unless you open the bag? And aren't they, usually, on the stop shelf and, generally, out of the reach of little kids? See where I'm going with this?

Of course we didn't let anybody purchase adult books/DVDs. Don't be disingenuous. Of course we carded people we felt were underage. My point was, adult apps should be available, but categorized separately.

As I stated in my previous comments, I despise all forms of censorship, even though Apple has the prerogative to censor any app they feel violates their moral/business philosophy. I just think a better idea is to regulate adult apps by separating them from other apps.

 

[Yata-Hey]

Show some class

Apple - show some class... keep the sleaze factor off the iphone! Also, all the "girls" apps - we don't need them on the iphone.

 

[bigmc6000]

Of course we didn't let anybody purchase adult books/DVDs. Don't be disingenuous. Of course we carded people we felt were underage. My point was, adult apps should be available, but categorized separately.

As I stated in my previous comments, I despise all forms of censorship, even though Apple has the prerogative to censor any app they feel violates their moral/business philosophy. I just think a better idea is to regulate adult apps by separating them from other apps.

I just think they need something more than telling parents they have to go make sure the parental controls are enabled. How about they make it enabled by default and then you enter your DL # and you're good on that device for, idk, a month or so to purchase adult apps? Or maybe have them put in the DL # every time you want to purchase something like that - I mean, how often are you buying R movies or 17+ apps on your iPhone?

 

[corinhorn]

But what if I want boobs on my phone?

Well, I suppose you could use Safari. Or you could take a snapshot of your wife's/girlfriend's ta-ta's and keep them on your phone.