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iOS 10 Is Surfacing Hardcore Porn GIFs in iMessage (theverge.com)
Apple has found itself in hot water once again. The company's revamped iMessage -- and the inclusion of a range of extensions -- isn't rendering the best of results. Hours after the release of iOS 10 -- which caused issues for some users -- news outlets noticed a "highly sexual" My Little Pony GIF was appearing in searches when curious minds searched for the word "butt". But that wasn't the end of it. The Verge explains the horror: A woman who emailed The Verge this afternoon says her eight-year-old daughter, while trying to send a message to her dad, was presented with "a very explicit image" of "a woman giving oral sex to a well endowed male." Her daughter hadn't searched for anything explicit, just the word "huge." I see the image come up like, holy shit, whoa whoa whoa, that's a hardcore porn image," Tassie Bethany, whose daughter discovered the image, tells The Verge by phone. "I grabbed the phone from her immediately. She typed in the word 'huge,' which isn't sexual in any nature. It's just a word, not like butt or anything else." GIF search is one of the new features built into iMessage in iOS 10. Apple has been prohibiting searches for most sexual terms, but it's a real problem for porn to slip through for an otherwise normal term like "huge."Reminds me of Apple's old porn problems.
That's all.
Reverand Lovejoy: [throws Bart out] Don't you ever come near my daughter again! Never have I heard such gratuitous use of the word "butt"!
Bart Simpson: [pleading] But-but-but, but-but-but...
Helen Lovejoy: [covering her ears] Make him stop! Make him stop!
Worse than that, the internet is a huge place.
...and most of us wouldn't have it any other way...
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
So images should not come up when you're using iMessage to search for gifs. Got it. Jobs would be proud.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Think about the number of things you'd use the word "huge" with in terms of searching. For most things, we'd probably denote some unit of measure or use the word "large". Google search returned mostly SFW stuff, but did include this rather hilarious porn image: http://media.boingboing.net/wp... (NSFW)
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
I fail to see any problem here.
There was a man in the picture as opposed to two women.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
i love lamp.