Apple pulls 500px app

There are one or two stories a month on gaming sites about Apple pulling/rejecting games for reasons that either don't resemble reality or are just bizarre. For example they rejected a WW2 game because the Japanese faction in it was based on the Japanese in WW2 and doing that broke their guidelines - "violent" games aren't allowed to have enemy factions based on real races, cultures, governments, corporations or any other "real entity". They also famously don't pull lots of games that they should be pulling - like direct rip offs of existing titles that are dressed up to look like the real one.

As for the specific allegation the BBC have highlighted (probably because they know people will froth at the mouth over the mere suggestion, even if it's baseless) there are bound to be photos of models that look quite young on it and lots of people treat anything with nudity as porn.
I can imagine someone downloading it to look at the wildlife or landscape photography and not being thrilled to find art nudes there too, though I was under the impression it respected your account filtering setting and defaulted to no nudity like Flickr does.

If they were serious about this they would pull Twitter, Tumblr, Instragram and everything else like that because they have much less effective filtering systems if they even have any at all.
 
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I guess they'll be pulling Safari & Chrome apps too as I'm pretty certain you can search for boobies and nudity on those apps too :shrug: :thinking:
 
dubcat said:
http://gigaom.com/2013/01/22/apple-pulled-500px-photography-app-over-child-porn-complaints/

it's not about child pornography, it's about nudity. Apple, the Internet Taliban, preserving everyones moral compass and ensuring it always points towards Infinity Loop :) Annoying behaviour by apple (and this comes from an ipad, iphone, macbook air and desktop mac user).
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The Flickr apps don't stand a chance then, the nudity on there is on another level entirely and I would definitely classify some of it as pornography.

I'm fairly relaxed about nudity and have never felt the need to restrict what I see on 500px, but I wouldn't even contemplate relaxing my settings on Flickr (even seemingly innocent searches bring up some, erm, interesting results).
 
I just downloaded this on my note 2 as I dont even know what it is. What a suprise. Lovely photo app. Not seen any kiddy porn though lol
 
Apple really need to get a gripe here imho, I love the app on my phone and iPad :)

While I've never seen anything I consider pornographic on 500px, I've actually been shocked by some of the images on flickr and even google+ in the communities.

DazJW said:
but the app doesn't represent that too well at the moment because you can't look at people's profiles. They're adding that soon supposedly.
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How do you mean?

on the iphone app, if you click an image to open and then click on the title / photographer name at the top, you're taken to a screen that says *insert photographers name here* profile

Many people people on there don't fill in a Bio though so the info tab doesn't always hold much.
 
The Android app doesn't have the option yet (was quoting someone using a Note 2 which runs Android).
 
I've been using the iOS app for about 2 weeks now and I've not come across any nudity. The web site is worse tbh, as you can be scrolling through the images and BOOM...nudity.

Not seen any in the app tho.
 
Are you looking at the images ?


You only have to look at the popular section and within a couple of swipes you'll see some fantastic nude work, then of course you could swipe down and enter the categories and select nude :)

I've never seen pornographic images on there, let alone child porn!!!!!!
 
Never seen anything on 500px that I would consider porn, let alone child porn. Flickr on the other hand is loaded with porn and accessible from the app.
 
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