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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. ICO anyone? by GeekWithAKnife · · Score: 4, Insightful


    Couldn't be due to the ICO for telegram and potentially allowing telegram tokens transferred through encrypted chat that cannot be eavesdropped on?

    Good guess? :-)

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

    What can be inappropriate about a messenger app?

    1. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by TWX · · Score: 4, Funny

      Have you seen some of the screencaps pulled from Snapchat?

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    2. 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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    3. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      We don't use the initials A P K around here...

    4. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by spire3661 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This is a real fucking issue. At some point we are going to have to force them both to allow ANY legal app or we have a real censorship problem. Google and Apple should NOT be gatekeepers of 'inappropriate'.

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    5. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by wardrich86 · · Score: 2

      I have no idea what you're getting at, but okay... all I was trying to say was that as an Android user, I don't have to fear Mama Google pulling away apps, because the developer has the option to release the program as an APK and distribute the software that way. You can also run Android totally free of Google Services if you really wanted.

  3. 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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  4. Wish Apple would also block trackers in apps! by yuvcifjt · · Score: 2

    Far too many apps on the AppStore which utilise trackers of all sorts, most famous being Google analytics and other Google adware tools, but more so other companies that use advanced forms of fingerprinting such as playing sound / detecting sound outside the human listening wavelength as well as watching movement of fingers across the screen.

    But seeing as Android and Windows 10 are now the most dominant OS globally, most sheep obviously don't care about their privacy (or they're clueless of it).

    1. Re:Wish Apple would also block trackers in apps! by CaptainDork · · Score: 3, Funny

      You left out your anti-sheep solution.

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

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  6. Re: Why is Telegram rated for ages 4 and up? by Carewolf · · Score: 2

    Sending unsolicited nudes by SMS to a minor is likely illegal in various places. It's also not Apple's problem or ability to filter SMS.

    Neither is it in a messenging app. It is there job to stop themselves from providing the wrong content to the wrong users, but a messaging app is content free.

    Apple's own solution is supposedly encrypted, and Apple claims they can't decrypt it, if so, it must also be uncensored. So just as "mature" as this other competing messaging app.