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Third-Party Reddit Apps Pulled From App Store for NSFW Content [Updated]
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They should pull all web browsers also....along with Kim Kardashian's instagram account
Apple applying these rules inconsistently is not surprising. Apple is known to be like this. Anyone here that says they're surprised and outraged is a liar.
Let me see if I can understand this correctly... Apple removed these apps because they had NSFW toggles and once the developers of these apps removed these toggles, the apps were allowed to return to the app store. In doing so, the apps now honor the user's preference set on Reddit.com to filter out the NSFW content. That being said, the NSFW content can still be received and viewed from the app.
So Apple is not removing these apps because NSFW content can be accessed from these apps, but instead, removing these apps because there are toggles, or user interface elements, that easily indicate to the user that the app is capable of receiving NSFW content OR allow the user to easily turn this content on OR are configured in a way that the NSFW toggles are on by default.
Apple seems to be worried that a specific app that features preferences that blatantly identify the app as being able to view NSFW content would be abused as a medium to solely view NSFW content. As far as I'm concerned, Apple needs to relax.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a response to parents complaining that some app corrupted their precious snowflake by letting them know that the NSFW content existed in the first place, otherwise they never would have viewed in the first place...
Personally I think parental controls makes more sense (and so does a toggle) but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the reason.
Only with significant amount of restrictions on what can be shown (or even written) in such apps - with wonderful rules like 'not a single pubic hair must be visible'.
Heaven forbid Adults be given the choice to police themselves. The world might end if we see anything to do with sex. Violence is ok, but no sex.
And Apple could equally impose their own rating system or just partner with IARC and get ratings for each different organisation. Google Play does that and you can see in the US/Canada that all applications are given an ESRB rating.
"Apple" - noun. definitions: 1) a Big Brotherish mega-corporation, 2) Why 2016 sometimes does look like 1984, only 32 years later. See 1984 ad:
"Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail !"
"Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail !"
I hate when people post useless comments like this. What, you should always accept things as they are or just ignore them? That kind of attitude has lots to do with the state of the world today!
