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Messaging App Telegram Pulled From Apple's App Store Due To 'Inappropriate Content' (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the stranger-things dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple has removed Telegram's official app from its iOS App Store. The app disappeared yesterday, shortly after Telegram launched a rewritten Telegram X app for Android. Telegram X is currently in testing on iOS, and it was also removed from the App Store. "We were alerted by Apple that inappropriate content was made available to our users and both apps were taken off the App Store," says Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. "Once we have protections in place we expect the apps to be back on the App Store."

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  1. 'Inappropriate Content' by xvan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What can be inappropriate about a messenger app?

    1. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Hal_Porter · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Google pulled gab.ai from the Play store because gab.ai didn't have a censorship policy that Google approved of. So did Apple.

      https://www.scribd.com/documen...

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  2. Removed from App Store by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Let's hope it's not also removed from iPhones currently using it,

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  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Comment removed based on user account deletion