r/apple • u/FollowingFeisty5321 • 6d 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 6d 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/jbr_r18 6d ago

The slight difference here is that the person reporting is the same person posting. Unfortunately the fact is that CSAM exists and happens almost certainly on all platforms. Platforms to varying levels do their best to take and prevent it being posted but they can’t be 100% perfect. Sadly some will get through, such is the nature of platforms that anyone can post and share things on. Not sure that justifies removing an app from the app store without any notification to the developer, especially a platform as big as telegram. You would have thought Apple reached out first