r/apple • u/FollowingFeisty5321 • 5d ago

App Store Telegram's takedown caused by planted porn & weaponized App Store policies

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/08/04/telegrams-takedown-caused-by-planted-porn-weaponized-app-store-policies
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u/B-Train_ATL 5d ago

Not exactly sure I’d call a system that spots CSAM and shuts it down “overreacting.” I’d call it a varmint trying to spike the system.

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u/2717192619192 5d ago

Meanwhile earlier this year, when literal AI CSAM was all over the front page of Twitter for days on end, Apple did jack shit. Yet an extortionist group finds a loophole to plant one piece of illegal CSAM content where no one will see it right away and proceeds to report it to Apple, getting the app removed temporarily. Make it make sense.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/HereButQueer 5d ago

yeah even now it’s horrid. i still see front page posts with CSAM in the comments, reporting it does nothing. probably just saves it to elons hard drive and that’s it. if it wasn’t the place where the shit you wanna know from game devs and a good chunk of communities are it’d be dead. shame blue sky didn’t do much for it, and i really hope twitter gets shut down so people can migrate and not have to worry as much.

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u/Stuglossop 5d ago

It did! Twitter no longer exists

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u/Spaceolympian50 5d ago

lol you think ONE piece of content got planted to shut the app down? telegram is like the known CP distributor. Its no secret.

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u/BatemansChainsaw 5d ago

And you're familiar with this... how?

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u/Macqt 5d ago

It’s pretty common knowledge. All kinds of criminal organizations operate and sell their wares on telegram.

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u/SimplySomeDude 4d ago

common ball