Tech | January 23, 2010 | 9 comments

Apple Hates Porn. But Porn Loves the iPhone.

source: http://Krapps.com

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Porn can never be washed from the Web; it can just be driven into stealth mode. And it’s no different on the mobile Web. That’s why Apple’s efforts to keep porn off the iPhone is turning into a never-ending, ever more complex campaign.

Apple (AAPL) can block as many porn-oriented apps as it wants. But the problem is that browsers are themselves apps that open a window onto the entire Web itself. Charles Rodriguez, president of iHustleApps, thought he could use a browser-based app as an end-run around Apple's porn restrictions and introduced forChan, a browser app designed for imageboards that host nasty pics.

As Krapps.com noted, Apple not only shut him down, it revoked his license to sell apps in its store and deleted the other 224 apps he sold there. That prompted a sharp and clever rebuke from Gizmodo, which argued that Apple’s logic meant it needed to ban Microsoft’s Bing app as well as its own Safari browser from the iPhone.


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9 comments // Apple Hates Porn. But Porn Loves the iPhone.

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    • Found this quite funny when I saw it at 1Cast. There's really not much we can do if Apple wants to ban porn. There are non-Apple choices available for those who want a "variety" of choices for apps.

    • 1 year ago
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    • Well kiddies - my friend, who is a top computer insider type - builds the top-end machines and hosts gaming sites and has hackers for a network of friends, tells me: That the NSA can turn on that little camera on the computer, laptop or iphone of yours and see what they see. In fact, he tells me, anyone with the hack can do it.
      He says, electrical tape on all his cams, standard operating procedure.

      So while these nerdophiles are in the bathroom with their iphones, somebody could be watching...

    • 2 years ago
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