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Apple Forces Twitter to Take Down Vine Porn, but Ignores Thousands of Twitter Porn Profiles
Apple has always been proud of their tight porn policies, rejecting porn apps from their App store and pushing fetishists to Android. That is, until Twitter-owned Vine got up and running. Vine, as you know, is an app that lets users post six-second videos, and because this is the Internet, of course videos of people doing it found their way onto the site immediately. Which meant that suddenly Twitter itself was a porn app, and Apple couldn't have it.
So Apple turned around and told Twitter to shut their Vine-baby's porn habits up, and Twitter obliged. And thus the day was saved, and Apple could once again say there was no porn in their app store ...
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"A great user interface or buckets of porn. Pick one, not both."
... that is, if you ignore the thousands upon thousands of Twitter profiles completely dedicated to posting pornographic images on Twitter every single day, all of which are easily found if you use the right hashtags. Apparently, blurry six-second video clips are unacceptable, but several gigabytes of pictures so nasty that they'd make Larry Flynt blush are completely fine. Good job, Apple.
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