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Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content

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fencepost wrote: post #164

This seems like it could be applied to any app designed to display user-generated content on a single site or family of sites, obviously including Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. since I'm pretty sure it's possible to find nudity on any of those just with some casual browsing. Should also probably be applied to Messenger, Hangouts, Skype, Duo, WhatsApp, etc. since I'm pretty sure there's nudity a…

There's a pretty obvious separation though between public and private media apps. I doubt private chat apps will get heat like this.

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xvilka wrote: post #108
glenndebacker wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Flemish/Belgian museum try to post some historical Flemish Baroque paintings or statues on Facebook or a Google platform... For our clients that is a real problem. The irony is that you will a lot of those "explicit content" hanging or being displayed in Catholic Churches all over Europe so it has nothing to do with religion but only extreme (American) puritanism.

I always wondered how it is possible to be a nation of innovation and still be so idiotically puritanical. Clearly a smart person cannot support this step back into the dark ages of witch hunt.

Really? I know engineers of all stripes who hold fundamentalist religious views.

I know an engineer doing well at Amazon for 7 years now, who pays a 3rd party streaming service that sensors violence and sexuality from movies for him.

Musings on it here: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo

Re: Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content

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Freak_NL wrote: post #62
pmlnr wrote: post #27

Dear corporations, As an european adult, I'm ok with adult and explicit content. Leave art alone.

A good part of their customer base (i.e., the advertisers) are not okay with explicit content, for a variety of reasons. Fear of their brand being associated with sex, puritan principles (their own or those of their customers), or just plain convinced that advertisements don't have the same impact when the content it is served with is arousing. That is to say, the corporations don't care, and will grant you a scant a…

Does that relate to this case though? The only one who should care about advertising on ArtStation, is ArtStation. Why would google have ads on their phones that care about ArtStation app?

People have the choice to install any given app or not. They don't need to be puritanically mothered.

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rayalez wrote: post #47

Somewhat unrelated - ArtStation has a browser extension that randomly opens a random artwork every time you open a new tab, and I highly recommend it, it's one of my favorite extensions and a great way to see some stunning artworks, it always brightens my day. On topic - dumb decision, nothing new, not very surprising, waiting for PWAs to get to a point where arbitrary Apple/Google rules don't matter anymore.

Great idea!

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/artstation-discove...

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Post by wilgertvelinga »

bhouston wrote: post #95
krn wrote: post #69

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I take this as the best explanation why Reddit is pushing its app so hard, even though it has a one of the most visited websites in the world. It's not about user engagement with content. It's about user engagement with ads.

yes, you can not block ads in a native app. And they are so annoying on the reddit mobile app.

Yes you can, although it's slightly harder than installing a browser extension: https://pi-hole.net/

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therealdrag0 wrote: post #211
fencepost wrote: post #164

This seems like it could be applied to any app designed to display user-generated content on a single site or family of sites, obviously including Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. since I'm pretty sure it's possible to find nudity on any of those just with some casual browsing. Should also probably be applied to Messenger, Hangouts, Skype, Duo, WhatsApp, etc. since I'm pretty sure there's nudity a…

There's a pretty obvious separation though between public and private media apps. I doubt private chat apps will get heat like this.

I've never used WhatsApp so I'm not sure how public vs private it is, but apparently it has a child porn problem: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/whatsapp-pornography/ (also see many results for "whatsapp child porn" with different variations of related info). Would that be one of those private chat apps?
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