Tumblr Removed From Apple App Store Over Child Rape Images (pizzagate)

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Tumblr has been removed from Apple's app store because it let some users post images of child sexual abuse.

The social network's app was removed on 16 November but the reason for it being unavailable has only just come to light. In a statement it said the illegal images got through because its filters failed to spot them.

It said getting the app re-listed was a "priority" but has given no date for when it might be available.

Tumblr gave more details about why it was taken off Apple's store after being approached by tech news site Cnet with a claim that indecent images of children were the cause.

In its statement, it said that all images uploaded to Tumblr pass through a database of "known child sexual abuse material". It added that any matches to the database are detected and deleted - and would never appear on its platform.

In this case, it said, the images being uploaded were not in the industry database so its filters did not catch them. However, it said, the illegal content was discovered during a routine audit.

"We immediately removed this content," it said, and added: "Content safeguards are a challenging aspect of operating scaled platforms."

Tumblr has a reputation for allowing sexually-themed material to be shared on its service. This led to it being banned for a day in Indonesia over the mature content. South Korea has also asked it to do a better job of moderating adult content on the service.

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Criticalthinker615 ago

Did i just read that they have a database of "known child abuse material"?? It sounds like we need to know who is organizing, maintaining and accessing this data.

Kahlypso79 ago

Well... Id have to say that it's Tumblr's owner's that are getting the data. If they are anything like Tweeter.. https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/21/twitter-bug-sent-user-direct-messages-to-developers-for-over-a-year/?guccounter=1 or the NSA... https://www.govexec.com/technology/2014/07/snowden-nsa-employees-are-passing-around-nude-photos/88954/ then you're probably going to get a lot of Tumblr Employees grooming a 'misc' folder with personal favourites somewhere..

Vindicator ago

One might make a case that this is the whole point of social media: the gleaning of free porn and CP.

Kahlypso79 ago

I think that the CP and 'potential blackmail material' were just unexpected bonuses.. but perverts being perverts just cant resist dipping in and picking private photos out.. so think about it next time you send a dick pick through Tinder. Imagine how many 'married' people have sent pictures of their asshole to a complete stranger hoping for a gangbang.. hope no Courthouse jurists have any compromising material on them that could be used to spueeze them to push for a certain verdict.. lets not think about Judges...mein gott they're bad.. Twas all just gravy on an already fattened and butchered turkey getting 13 year old to send videos of themselves masturbating into the internet. . .it's often computer techniciens that have problems with adult females.. too much time watching manga porn and lolipops and 'dark net' porn.. thinking themselves so haxxor that they're using tor servers to 'hide' themselves.. Im sure you've heard of the Internet Dickwad Theory.. Dickwads turn into perverts when they believe themselves to be truely hidden.. Wonderland : https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/11/tracymcveigh.martinbright "This was the Wonderland Club, an international online paedophile ring which ran for four years before finally being smashed by the biggest international police operation ever undertaken." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1322551/Girl-8-raped-to-order-on-the-internet.html Prospective members were subjected to an online vetting process about their sexual preferences and were required to submit 10,000 new images as a pre-condition of acceptance. Existing members of the club voted on whether a new candidate should be admitted. Each time they entered the Wonderland channel, users went through seven separate security checks and had to pass two electronic gatekeepers known as Alice and Sandra. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/global_crime_report/investigation/wonderland1.shtml "After seizing Baldock's computer, officers discovered some 42,000 paedophilic images. They found links to a much larger international internet based paedophile ring." https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/03/us/internet-child-pornography-operation-is-raided-in-us-and-abroad.html "''The volume is enormous,'' Ray Kelly, the Commissioner of the United States Customs Service, said today, noting that the investigation had turned up a database of more than 100,000 sexual photographs of naked boys and girls, some younger than 2, some engaged in sexual acts with adults." https://www.zdnet.com/article/wonderland-paedophiles-are-sentenced/ "All were jailed for between 18 and 30 months -- none received the maximum sentence of three years." https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/pervert-who-ran-infamous-wonderland-857088

think- ago

....and personal data for the alphabet guys.