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We developed a free social media application back in 2016 that cost us about $500,000 to build. We provided multiple safety filters including world filters, neu
by cft 4y ago
We developed a free social media application back in 2016 that cost us about $500,000 to build. We provided multiple safety filters including world filters, neural net pornography detection for profile avatars, etc. The application had a user profile search function. We had about 100,000 downloads in less than a year. I'm sure that 99.9% of user profiles did not contain any sexual material. Certainly less than Twitter has, where you can search for explicit porn. Google found a rare edge case that our ML model missed and removed the app from the Play store. With a single automated email half a million dollars was gone from my bootstrapped company. Is there anything I can do?
- adventurer 4y agoI was banned around that time, myself. I ported to objective-c and applied to iTunes. the exact same app. made it through their manual review process. Still banned in the dev console even after this settlement. If there’s any way to get back in, someone please let us know. Unfortunately, I believe the only answer is to create a LLC.
- JanSt 4y agoDid you get that case to a lawyer?
- GTP 4y agoBe quick at contacting a lawyer, because you may have a limited time frame to act on it. It could even be that the terms already expired, but given the entity of the damage it is well worth paying a good lawyer for a consultancy.
- kobalsky 4y ago> Certainly less than Twitter has, where you can search for explicit porn Where you using the same content rating as Twitter?
- cft 4y agoSame, 18+