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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 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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  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. 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