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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.
The images appear to just be .gif type images originating from Bing. There's even a bing logo in the corner of the search window. I suspect it's similar to searching plain old Bing for .gif's. Even in safe search mode porn occasionally comes up.
Ha! reminds me of my mom (who came of age in the 60s) when i was a kid:
"hate is a very strong word"
shes right though, my mom, not the teacher. I assume the teacher meant something similar though. Kids (and people in general) are always saying they "hate" everything when really they just mean dislike. Hate is a much stronger word and children should be taught the difference.
I dislike eating fish. I hate slavery.
There is nothing wrong with children being taught to use language correctly.
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy
I fail to see any problem here.
There was a man in the picture as opposed to two women.
No, there was a woman in the picture as opposed to two men. This is Apple we are talking about.