More iPhone App Controversy with Alleged Underaged Nudity

the child porn aspect aside for a moment. am i the only one here that thinks all this hype is pretty hypocritical.

everyone out there who has an iPhone, or a computer for that matter, has bought into the porn industry and is running an application to access it. ITS CALLED A WEB BROWSER!!!!

i find it pretty arrogant on Apple's part to think they're doing the Lord's work providing Safari on the iPhone and allowing it to browse porn sites, but then they come down on developers for trying to provide apps that give direct access.

last time i checked, theres no RATING on Safari, but devs have to rate their apps. seems to me the devs are being more responsible than Apple with this one.

if you dont want to see porn or dont like porn, dont browse the web to porn sites and dont download risque apps from the app store.

i think Apple can do what it wants with its products, thats their right. but for them to try and come off like the Moral Police when all their products are able to provide access to it unrestricted, is a little ridiculous.

as for the child porn part. if that same picture had popped up in safari doing a google search or something, no one would have written an article about that. everyone knows child porn is wrong. if you come across it, you should report it. apps in the app store should be no different. they should stop trying to censor the content and focus on the platform. then as questionable, illegal, content arises deal with it like you would if it were something a person came across in their web browser.

ive obviously not counted, but theres a ton of movies available for rent and purchase in iTunes, that have nudity. apple doesnt seem to have a problem distributing that.

hypocrites.
 
Meh, 15 years old is hardly a "child". Too young for me, but I'm sure plenty of 16 and 17 year olds would be perfectly happy with it. I think a lot of people forget what they were like when they were teenagers, and modern technology has just taken it further.
 
Hattig said:
Meh, 15 years old is hardly a "child". Too young for me, but I'm sure plenty of 16 and 17 year olds would be perfectly happy with it. I think a lot of people forget what they were like when they were teenagers, and modern technology has just taken it further.
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ain't that the truth. the way people are jumping on this, you'd think they showered with a blindfold on, because they would be embarrassed to see themselves naked.
 
BeautyMeter has been avoiding the nudity wrath for quite some time now, months really. While their update gets approved and reviews applaud its "now with nudity" capability, all the Craigslist app updates have been rejected for channeling "objectionable content" and have been forced to remove Personals by the review team (we'll see if they return with the Parental Controls). If Apple wants to not distribute apps with nudity, fine; their choice. All I ask is that there be some consistency as to what's approved and what isn't.

Unfortunately, this Daring Fireball post probably is more true than you'd expect.
 
Get over it - do people / apple whine so much when someone see's nudity on an Apple computer, or any computer for that matter? No.

No difference between viewing the same stuff on an Apple computer. Same media, just different platform.

Smartphones are just less powerful computers.
 
gr8whtd0pe said:
That pic wasn't even taken with an iPhone, Who knows how old the girl really is or where the original image came from.
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Exactly. I think this whole thing is stupid. This was just some random photo that someone posted on there, trying to get comments/ratings. It was probably some middle aged guy who found the photo on some message board and thought he'd put down the age of 15 on it.

There are plenty of other photo swapping apps in the App Store that have nudity, so I guess I just don't really understand why this is such a big deal.
 
branjosef said:
Yet nothing about the girl's role in posting a nude photo of herself to the app. Oh that's right she cant possibly be blamed because she is a minor and therefore exempt from any level of responsibility for her actions.
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Exactly. In the old days, the parents would be held responsible. Today, I guess no one is... :rolleyes:
 
Oh dear! Picture of a naked girl! Yikes! Porn! Outrage! Off with their heads!
Glad that app is gone.

Now let's fire up Doom and put a chainsaw in some poor creature's head.
 
Frazzle said:
Oh dear! Picture of a naked girl! Yikes! Porn! Outrage! Off with their heads!
Glad that app is gone.

Now let's fire up Doom and put a chainsaw in some poor creature's head.
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LOL. Ain't that the truth....

Moral/religious zealots can now sleep tight, knowing that no naked humans are seen on their phone....

... and focus their attention on en electronic version of their "holy" book, savoring the graphic descriptions of sadistic tortures visited on the infidels, by their deity.

:confused:
 
gcmexico said:
I don't know...what's wrong with these kids? I'm no one to preach morality, but there's just something wrong with young girls thinking this is cool...I'm a high school teacher, and I can guarantee you that most of the girls in my high school would do this and think it's awesome....it's just weird...if I had a daughter I would die if she posted herself like that
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Maybe if producers stop making television shows like the OC, privileged, the hills, and gossip girl, young girls would stop thinking that being a high school slut who is rich, materialistic and entitled is cool. Great time to be a teenage boy though. When I wanted girls like that I had to date strippers which was costly (at first)
 
I'm very much against child porn, and believe people who engage in it should be aggressively pursued and severely punished.

However, how is this app really all that different from pretty much any other app that allows you to view images on the iPhone. You'd have to remove Safari, Flickr, YouTube, MMS (oops, nevermind here in the US we're already ok on with that one).

The app allows people to be tracked down. That's a good thing. Plus users can report abuse.

It seems like they are being overly cautious at the expense of common sense here.
 
Since the person(s) that shared the nude photos of underage girls can apparently be easily identified, they can probably expect a knock on the door from a representative of their local police department!

Mark
 
I hate stupid sites like that. How sad has the landscape of our teens and self-esteem and or narcissism really gotten? :( :rolleyes:
 
Arn,

You're really pathetic for posting this "story" on the front page. Obviously all you want to page views since you have no other real job besides this site. Innocent until proven guilty? This is speculation. Just as me accusing Arn of being a child molestor is speculation with no proof.

  • There is no proof that the girl is underage.
  • The same exact thing comes from Safari.
  • This has happened a 1000 times before.

Seriously, you need some quality control. Please close this thead or take it off the news section.

Thanks.
 
Mark Booth said:
Since the person(s) that shared the nude photos of underage girls can apparently be easily identified, they can probably expect a knock on the door from a representative of their local police department!

Mark
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You're probably right. The hysteria about 'child porn' these days has people brandishing their pitchforks at everything even remotely smelling like child porn. Hope they never find the naked butt pictures of me as a baby. :p

Ironically, the shown picture on Wired wouldn't be illegal or considered 'child porn'. The Supreme court has repeatedly ruled that simple nudity isn't pornography or obscene, regardless of the age of the people.

Wouldn't stop some overzealous cop or prosecutor from going after whoever posted it, of course.


As for the app being pulled: Might as well pull Safari then. Much worse things can be found on the Internet with it than this stupid little app.

I'd say use the ratings system now in place and let the adults decide what they want to see using their own minds and let the parents decide what they want their kids to see. Banning apps that can access user generated content isn't going to do anything other than lull some people into a false sense of security.
 
iVoid said:
You're probably right. The hysteria about 'child porn' these days has people brandishing their pitchforks at everything even remotely smelling like child porn. Hope they never find the naked butt pictures of me as a baby. :p

Ironically, the shown picture on Wired wouldn't be illegal or considered 'child porn'. The Supreme court has repeatedly ruled that simple nudity isn't pornography or obscene, regardless of the age of the people.

Wouldn't stop some overzealous cop or prosecutor from going after whoever posted it, of course.


As for the app being pulled: Might as well pull Safari then. Much worse things can be found on the Internet with it than this stupid little app.

I'd say use the ratings system now in place and let the adults decide what they want to see using their own minds and let the parents decide what they want their kids to see. Banning apps that can access user generated content isn't going to do anything other than lull some people into a false sense of security.
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well said
 
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