I do wonder what the justification for banning apps that "contain or promote sexually explicit content or profanity, including pornography".
American companies will enforce American cultural norms, simple as that.
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Is that so? I find that U.S.A. media tends to avoid rape but features all other kinds of violence. Anything related to sex, nudity and swearwords is held to the utmost standards of censorship.
That's been my impression for as long as I can remember. Very puritanical compared to, say, Europe... and yet violence is no problem. I honestly don't think that I'll ever understand what the hangup with nipples is all about.
It seems to be compared to most places that aren't Anglo-Saxon, even Canada seems to be excluded, and the U.K. seems to be quickly moving away from the nudity puritanism as of late. — Australia is very much still the iron bastion of Anglo-Saxon purity with it's censorship laws.
Even the many developing nations that have very strict moral standards on such matters seem to have no problem featuring it as an evil in fiction, in the same way the U.S.A. might feature murder as an evil in fiction, for the point is for the audience to condemn it.
But rape cannot actually be shown, as that would be too sensitive.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RapeIsASpecialKi...
It's a rather interesting thing. It does not seem to be entirely isolated to the U.S.A., but definitely more common there. I remember reading an interview with a Dutch criminal defence attorney, who talked about the principle that every man deserves a trial and the best legal defence, but also said that even though he personally feels that a man suspected of a sex crime should get a legal advocate, he would personally præfer it not be he, as he had moral problems with it that would make him less effective.
This was a man that regularly defended murderers, who no doubt confess to the crime within the seal of attorney–client confidentiality to him, but sex crimes are the limit? — it seems an odd standard to me.
Which was exactly the argument that the Dutchmen in the comments raised, so the mentality seems les common in the Netherlands, but not nonexistent either.
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#133This tracks. One of the things that always gets me about US media is that gratuitous rape - even fairly graphic rape scenes on TV - is just fine as long it doesn't involve visible nipples.
Is that so? I find that U.S.A. media tends to avoid rape but features all other kinds of violence. Anything related to sex, nudity and swearwords is held to the utmost standards of censorship.
It depends somewhat. There are very strict rules around sex on broadcast TV, but those rules largely do not apply to cable TV or internet streaming.
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#134It is infuriating that Google's default action for these automated takedowns is to remove the app and ask the developer to upload a new build with a new package name , which means not keeping any of the existing users. It's happened to two of my clients in the past 6 months based on small infractions in the app metadata, but no issue with the app itself. In both cases the app was taken down with no advance notice, an…
I don't understand Google's App store play. Just another walled garden where things like this can happen. They were the champions of the open web for a long time. What happened?
> What happened?
People fell for it.
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#135Legitimate large corporations are actively putting in effort to make sure apps don’t contain the word “ass” in their descriptions? What the actual fuck. What parent cares if their kid sees the word “ass”?
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#137I do wonder what the justification for banning apps that "contain or promote sexually explicit content or profanity, including pornography".
American companies will enforce American cultural norms, simple as that.
America is in the midst of a weird struggle to decide what those are; the companies are just trying to minimize local reputation risk.
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I'm just agog that people are still doing dumb pattern matching for profanity filters. I just assumed that YEARS AGO people realized how dumb it is, but apparently: No.
FWIW, general profanity detection is a highly nontrivial problem. It’s true that such subword profanity filters aren’t that great, but slightly more sophisticated ones (eg whole word matching or n-grams) tend to have relatively good precision. You could train a fancy neural network, but the overall return on precision and recall tends to be not that great (compared to the exponential change in speed and cost). The pr…
Even humans with full general intelligence and domain knowledge will fail at profanity detection. I think the problem here is not so much that there are false triggers, but that there is no way to deal with the false triggers — no way to appeal to reason or utility.
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#139Google and Apple have kept a stranglehold on the mobile application distribution market for over a decade now. It's time to break them up, or require them to allow other mobile app distributors on their platforms.
Surely other companies can be more efficient with the 30% cut or less that Google takes, without forcing users to put up with the poor service that's exemplified by the article in the OP.
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Sex that a woman enjoys is a sin. That's why rape scenes are fine.
Is that really true. I can think of lots of sex scenes in American movies and TV where the woman is depicted as enjoying it.
It doesn't seem true to me, as well as that rape scenes are common in U.S.A. fiction. They seem to be avoided, whereas all other crimes are liberally shown.
It seems to be a subject that often makes the U.S.A.-man extremely uncomfortable, especially when it pertains children, whereas other crimes such as child murder are seemingly discussed and shown with little issue.