{"id":349174,"date":"2010-02-22T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002386"},"modified":"2010-02-22T00:32:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T05:32:13","slug":"apple-angles-to-make-its-apps-less-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/349174","title":{"rendered":"Apple Angles To Make Its Apps Less Sexy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/iphone-thumb-158x118-37262.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Apple is bent on preventing its App Store from becoming a cesspool of pornography, <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/02\/20\/app-store-rules-sexy\/\">according to a TechCrunch post<\/a>, which says Apple&#8217;s rules are a bit constrictive, banning tight clothing and bathing suits as well as nudity.<\/p>\n<p>From the post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this week, when Apple notified developers that their applications were being removed, it said that it was removing applications with &#8220;overtly sexual content&#8221;. That sounds like the ban only extends to apps that are little more than soft core porn. But we&#8217;re hearing from multiple developers that it actually means anything that could be even the slightest bit titillating in any way &#8212; including swimsuits and fitness outfits. In short, if your app has skin, it will probably be rejected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think about the alleged censorship?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/02\/20\/app-store-rules-sexy\/\">The New App Store Rules: No Swimsuits, No Skin, And No Innuendo<\/a> [TechCrunch, via <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5476723\/the-itunes-app-store-declares-war-on-titillation?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kotaku%2Ffull+%28Kotaku%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Kotaku<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is bent on preventing its App Store from becoming a cesspool of pornography, according to a TechCrunch post, which says Apple&#8217;s rules are a bit constrictive, banning tight clothing and bathing suits as well as nudity. From the post: Earlier this week, when Apple notified developers that their applications were being removed, it said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}