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thomas34298 | 1 year ago

I think the same argument could be made for Twitter/X. The app stores by Google and Apple specifically disallow pornographic material, yet the app is full of it. Once you're big and important enough, the rules mostly don't apply for you anymore. Of course, if they tried to circumvent the app store tax directly within the app, there would be consequences, but as long as Google/Apple can make a profit, it's okay it seems.

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Quarrel|1 year ago

> I think the same argument could be made for Twitter/X. The app stores by Google and Apple specifically disallow pornographic material, yet the app is full of it.

Reddit is allowed too. imgur, snap, etc.

I assumed you're fine as long as your raison d'être wasn't porn and the content was user generated / supplied.

judge2020|1 year ago

To add, Tumblr was lambasted for them not properly policing their porn[0], accidentally allowing CSAM, and Apple being the one to inform them of this error. it's what led to them banning all 18+ content, arguably sealing the platform's fate of irrelevancy.

0: https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/20/18104366/tumblr-ios-app-...

johnnyanmac|1 year ago

And who determines that reason? Twitter seems to work fine with no restrictions but Discord basically has to lock down any server marked as 18+

(regardless of the content of 18+. Don't know how mobile has had 15 years to do granular content warnings based on decades of other medium but app stores still assume 18+ = porn).

drexlspivey|1 year ago

Can an aggregator/distributor be liable for user created content? You can find porn in Reddit or Google Search and these apps are still in the app store so I don’t think they are getting any special treatment.

theshrike79|1 year ago

Even Tapatalk had to filter out "adult" forums - and it's just a client to connect to 3rd party forums.

On Twitter you can find actual porn straight up.

BlueTemplar|1 year ago

There are some protections for hosting illegal data (real illegal, not EULA-disapproved), but they tend to go away if the host does any kind of editorializing (like showing the data through an algorithmic feed).

Google Search is different yet, since they aren't the primary host.

hoseja|1 year ago

I don't think I've ever actually seen any porn on eXtwitter. (Well, on main.)

Why was a perfectly fine Unicode Blackboard X filtered out of my post.

kevindamm|1 year ago

HN strips out emoji and other non-language characters, may be related to that