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Tumblr Removed From Apple's App Store Over Child Porn Issues (theverge.com)
Tumblr has reportedly been removed from Apple's App Store due to child pornography issues. "The app has been missing from the store since November 16th, but until now the reason for its absence was unclear -- initially Tumblr simply said it was 'working to resolve the issue with the iOS app,'" reports The Verge. "However, after Download.com approached Tumblr with sources claiming that the reason was related to the discovery of child pornography on the service, the Yahoo-owned social media network issued a new statement confirming the matter." From the report: In its updated statement, Tumblr said that while every image uploaded to the platform is "scanned against an industry database of child sexual abuse material" to filter out explicit images, a "routine audit" discovered content that was absent from the database, allowing it to slip through the filter. Although Tumblr says the content was immediately removed, its app continues to be unavailable on the App Store. It's still available in the Google Play store for Android users, however.
Tumblr has always had a lot of questionable content.
Why should Tumblr go, while things like Firefox and Chrome apps stay? Or most of all, what about Facebook and Twitter?
At some point you just have to say, the internet is going to have unclean stuff, and general browsers can't police things. The same is true for any community kind of application like Tumblr.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Step 1) Access and steal the official comprehensive database of all existing CP.
Step 2) Offer it up for bids to darkweb pedos
Step 3) Retire to Tahiti
I guess no O'Brian at work until this gets sorted.
Probably a good time to bring up Reggie Love...
THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL
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Get your act together.
The other day, I picked up this hot little piece that was hanging around a bus stop, took her home to my place. We were hot and heavy into it. But when I dropped her pants to give her the Love Sausage, holy shit, she was a boy! Too late, I just used the hother hole and filled his teen ass with a gallon of my baby batter!
He might get off watching Ivanka use a strap on while pounding Hillary. I'd watch that video anyway.
Maybe one where Ivanka is the prison guard, and it's laundry day in the prison.
Actually scratch that, Ivanka femdom with that Cortez bitch assuming the position.
All socialists are bottoms.
Did they get canned because their database isn't complete with all available child porn or did they get canned because they HAVE a database of most known child porn?
As child porn is discovered, either by the tech sites or the legal authorities, it is added to the database so that future distribution of those same pictures can be tracked and stopped/deleted, and the posters hopefully identified.
But new pictures of children being molested are just that: new. Of course the new pictures aren't going to find a match in the database.
I know it ruins the jokes but the database is stored as hashes, using something like PhotoDNA that survives basic alterations, they don't keep the actual material.
Step 1) Access and steal the official comprehensive database of all existing CP.
Step 2) Offer it up for bids to darkweb pedos
Step 3) Retire to Tahiti
If it was that easy, it would be copied so many times there was no profit.
Presumably, they use some kind of fingerprint or hash to match the images, not just index them. This would only allow a low-res thumbnail to be extracted.
But where do you draw the line? The problem with these stories is, you don't know where they are talking, on the spectrum from physical abuse of babies, to topless tabloid page-3 girls.
Story checks out
The big tech firms are sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars of cash, that is not being spent.
They should be forced, by the government if necessary, to spend it stopping child porn - which, let us be crystal clear, they are making money off of. When platform X serves up child porn to someone, platform X is getting a cut somehow.
If they have to hire 50,000 people to review images and 5,000 ex-cops / ex-fbi / investigators to track down the sources, and 3,000 psychologists to help everyone deal with the trauma, they should do it.
Isn't it nice that Apple decides what software you can install on your own device?
Yeah, I got a TON of messages yesterday from people (mostly artists) who were having their NSFW blogs torn down, even if the blogs were appropriately rated as such. Lots of people had their blogs removed and it has nothing to do with the actual content. Apparently, Tumblr's way of dealing with this problem was to use an automated script to ban a wide variety of blogs with the NSFW tag, and wait for the owners to file appeals.
Also, the real problem was apparently a rash of bots spamming NSFW ads, not specifically child porn. I guess as long as they're Thinking of the Children, it makes the widespread and unfair auto-ban of all NSFW content a bit more PR friendly. Most of the artists I follow that had content removed just draw cartoons, and there's no photos, let alone under-aged art.
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I didn't say web browser, I said browser.
To me something like Tumblr or Facebook or Twitter is not that much different than a web browser, just more segmented in what you are browsing.
In the abstract, A social network is just like a broader network in terms needing software to traverse nodes, and search.
You are still browsing through an unvarnished view of basically any kind of possible thought or image (modulo automated censorship, which we all know fails from time to time).
Tumblr is probably heavier on erotica, but then again that could be totally false - if you follow the right people on Twitter/Facebook I'm sure you could see some things you would rather not see.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Most likely they got canned because tumblr, being the favourite social network for the more depressed and frankly crazy girls of varying ages ended up accepting nudes from some such individuals who were well below the legal age, when they posted them themselves.
Such content would obviously not be on any "CP database", and with mainstream media being in full blown "destroy online social networking" crusade, some WSJ, NYT etc investigator most likely ran into such images while searching for any content that could be used to blackmail the IT majors. It has been done before, and it will keep getting done for as long as IT majors keep bowing to the pressure instead of telling the mass media to take a hike.
can't trust the masses with alternative news now can we!
THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL
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You are not allowed to use an independant app repository when using apple ?
You're sooooo screwed.
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I imagine they do keep the material, probably in encrypted form such that it needs authorization from multiple people to access. They need to keep it so they have the option of recalculating using alternative perceptual hashes in future.
These are based on hashes provided by the police.
My question to you is. Why ask a rhetorical question.
Trump is the punching nag for these fake ass communists making their big push to take everything from you as Communists have always done. Oh, you thought it was about equality..
Retire to Tahiti
...it's a magical place.
So changing one pixel is enough to render it useless.
The real question gets to be: what images are in that DB that don't belong there? What if an 18+ porn star just looks young? They might look perfectly legal coming from a legit porn site, but still get flagged if someone started posting them on a "Lolita" Tumblr, pretending they are child porn. How about stills from the movie "Pretty Baby"? The movie is available through legal channels, so presumably stills from the movie could be used under Fair Use... perhaps even in a Tumblr post about how the movie is disgusting and should be illegal. And since you can't just download the hashing software and the list of hashes from GitHub (as far as I know), how does the use of this type of system not have a chilling effect? You're taking a pretty big chance if an image falls into a grey area where someone might have included it in this database and you use it and get tagged.
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A Tumblr "app" is pretty useless anyway.
Since the take down happened new on Tumblr is the option to report art/drawings separately from photos/videos. Allegedly, this separation is supposed to make it easier for scan/checking reported images.