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Note that banning "all porn" is easier than accurately sorting child porn from regular porn at that scale as it lets you avoid pissing off petite 20 year olds o
by Macha 4y ago
Note that banning "all porn" is easier than accurately sorting child porn from regular porn at that scale as it lets you avoid pissing off petite 20 year olds or getting in trouble because your moderators OKed a report of what turned out to be a more developed 16 year old.
So yes, Apple may only have required Tumblr to more effectively moderate to prevent child porn, but from a business feasibility point of view the practical way to do that was ban all porn.
- nathanvanfleet 4y ago
- Macha 4y agoYes. But to remove only child porn and not all porn requires you to have some way of determining what is child porn. So you need to sort it into "child porn, remove" and "porn of consenting adults, allow". Or you do what Tumblr did, and just ban all porn.
- cupofpython 4y agothe person you replied to was being unnecessarily semantic, but in computer science "sort" has a specific meaning which is only the ordering of a set. So 'sorting' cp implies making it easier to find specific cp. The more accurate word might be "categorize" or "filter". It was obvious what was meant by "sort" when reading the full text, but I think the counter-point was more of a tongue-in-cheek retort regarding the above than an actual complaint.
- Macha 4y ago"tongue-in-cheek retort", "pointless pedantry and pointscoring", it's all a matter of perspective I guess.
- oaiey 4y agoIt is called divide and conquer. Sorting is the hard part, filtering/deleting/alerting is the easy part.
- cjaybo 4y agoIf you read beyond those three words, I think it's very clear that they mean removing.
- asiachick 4y agoTwitter allows porn. How do they do it?
- Macha 4y agoTwitter is probably big enough that more Apple users would complain if Apple enforced such a hardline policy, and has a pre-existing relationship with apple (If I recall correctly, Twitter and Facebook were the first two share with opitons on iOS), so Apple is more likely to forward on complaints than nuke them? Twitter also requires more personal data (e.g. phone numbers for new accounts), so that may discourage users from posting illegal content in the first place.