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It was a typical Monday morning. Cup of coffee and catching up with the team when I saw this snippet of a conversation in HipChat: “Don’t be naughty like Apple!” When I asked how Apple was naughty, one of our developers said, “they sent us a picture of a guy masturbating.” loving what???? Apple, the company that created the iPod, Apple? “Yup.” It turns out Apple thought the best way to tell us our app could be used to surf porn was to surf for porn using our app. Then send us some pictures and say take a look at these! Except they said, “Please see the attached screenshot for more information.” So with no warning… CLICK — Well hello there handsome! Let me start by saying Apple’s policy to make sure people can flag inappropriate content is a good thing. We had a flagging process but they thought it could be better and we are improving it. But that’s not the point. Apple sent us pornography without trying to mask it and with no warning of what we were going to see. This means they exposed employees of my company to things Apple themselves said was objectionable. How is this acceptable? Things they could have done instead: Given us a sample hashtag to search. Pixelate the naughty parts to protect the innocent. Explain that there was a pornographic example waiting before we opened the attached files. But no, they just sent porn to our employees without warning. Porn that our employees found offensive. Which brings up the question: Who’s responsible? If an employee had sent porn, we would fire the employee. If a client had sent porn, we would fire the client. But when Apple sends porn you can’t fire them without changing your entire business model. They are in a position of power. So as an employer my choice is to not work with Apple and by default fire all of the iOS devs. Or do nothing and hope it doesn’t happen again. At which point I have now made a statement to my employees that Apple is allowed to send us porn because they are the gatekeepers to our prosperity. Neither of these choices are acceptable. Instead I am going to try and get Apple to change their policy. I don’t think for a second that anyone at Apple thought it would be fun to send us porn. More than likely this is part of a policy of sending screenshots of violations to help app developers fix problems and get in the store. But in this case it (forgive the pun) exposes everyone to an uncomfortable reality. So please help me get the word to the upper echelon at Apple who would probably be as shocked as I am that they are sending porn to their customers. There is a much better way to protect people from offensive material. It starts with not violating your own policy. 
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Oct 24, 2014 20:29
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lmfao please be real
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Oct 24, 2014 20:32
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was too lazy to c/p on my phone but here is the linky https://medium.com/@carlsmith/apples-porn-policy-27d5ef1c86ab
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Oct 24, 2014 20:39
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they sent apple an app with porn in it. then got mad when they sent a screenshot of their own app back.
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i like how they act like tim himself sent back the photo instead of just filing a complaint and moving on
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Oct 24, 2014 20:49
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isn't the usually complaint that apple refused an app but wouldn't say why or provide proof
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Oct 24, 2014 20:56
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so does the app just directly browse porn
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fapr.app lookin good
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PleasureKevin posted:lmfao please be real
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Oct 24, 2014 21:34
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the dildo fake-out was masterful
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kinda wish i'd seen it in real time without already knowing the context tho
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"barnacle tim has a long phone" would have been a funny thing to say when the iphone 5 was announced.
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apple employee forgot to use nws tags, time to get outraged and write about business ethics
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plz dont post owlofcreamcheese's webcam
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hey it's me I'm the goat man whattts up
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tim is off on a search to rescue the penus it has been snatched by a horrible and evil monster this happened because tim made a mistake
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Werthog 95 posted:"barnacle tim has a long phone" would have been a funny thing to say when the iphone 5 was announced. I said that.
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Citizen Tayne posted:I said that. good. I'm glad somebody did, because it would have been a wasted opportunity if somebody hadn't.
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PleasureKevin posted:lmfao please be real
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i see so many dicks in the course of my job this guy is such a crybaby
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porn? on my internet?
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poty posted:owned
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Santas Ainol Elf posted:porn? on my internet? we should rename "bits" to "baps" in honor of porn
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Santas Ainol Elf posted:porn? on my internet? holy poo poo where? 
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Citizen Tayne posted:I said that. me too
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Oct 27, 2014 19:36
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That joke is so good, there's room for more than one of us.
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apples fired! clients fired ! Obama fired! I'll fire everyone until all this porno is gone!
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