Porn can never be washed from the Web; it can just be driven into stealth mode. And it’s no different on the mobile Web. That’s why Apple’s efforts to keep porn off the iPhone is turning into a never-ending, ever more complex campaign.Apple AAPL can block as many porn-oriented apps as it wants. But the problem is that browsers are themselves apps that open a window onto the entire Web itself. Charles Rodriguez, president of iHustleApps, thought he could use a browser-based app as an end-run around Apple’s porn restrictions and introduced forChan, a browser app designed for imageboards that host nasty pics.As Krapps.com noted, Apple not only shut him down, it revoked his license to sell apps in its store and deleted the other 224 apps he sold there. That prompted a sharp and clever rebuke from Gizmodo, which argued that Apple’s logic meant it needed to ban Microsoft’s Bing app as well as its own Safari browser from the iPhone.
via Apple Hates Porn. But Porn Loves the iPhone. | The Big Money.
Washington, Jun 2 (ANI): Microsoft‘s new search engine ‘Bing‘ may be as good as Google, but Internet safety experts have warned that there is a glitch in the engine that gives users easy access to pornographic material.
Bing went live in the U.S. this weekend, and bloggers and Internet safety experts discovered that one of its “features” needed only a few clicks for anyone, of any age, to view explicit pornographic videos without even leaving the search engine.
As Microsoft attempts to unseat Google, it unveiled a slate of convenient features for Bing, including an “autoplay” tool that lets users preview videos simply by hovering a mouse over them.he tool may become a liability because users can have easy access to porn videos on Bing, and not have to log on to one of the porno web sites.
via Microsoft’s new search engine ‘Bing’ gives users easy access to porn – Yahoo! India News.
YouTube is deleting thousands of sexually explicit videos after it was hit by an organised attack yesterday in a prank known as “Porn Day”.
The video-sharing website, owned by Google, has removed most of the porn clips but some content could be available for days as YouTube deletes the offending material. The pranksters hid the porn amid innocent footage of celebrities such as Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers.
Members of the 4Chan message board, which focuses mostly on Japanese anime and manga, have claimed responsibility for uploading the porn, apparently in response to YouTube’s stance on copyright music videos.
via YouTube besieged by porn videos | Media | guardian.co.uk.
Joshua Plaut slumped in the back of Manhattan’s Supreme Court today, waiting for the judge and seemingly willing this whole affair to go away quietly. He hailed from the New York powerhouse law firm Wilson Sonsini, and Google was paying him top dollar to do as little as possible. The search giant, whose founders cling to their “Don’t be evil” motto like guns and religion, had found itself in the middle of a tabloid frenzy, a courtroom drama pitting a statuesque Vogue model against an anonymous blogger who had decided the world needed to know she was nothing but a dried-up strumpet. For a company that prides itself on ennobling the world in between bouts of record-breaking quarterly profits, this was grief Google didn’t need.
Last August, someone set up a Google blogger account and used it to create the blog Skanks in NYC, complete with photographs of New York model Liskula Cohen partying with her friends, as well as a few captioned observations about her sex life, age, and mental state. A horrified Cohen promptly got herself a lawyer and sued Google, seeking to force the company to divulge all identifying information the blogger provided when he or she registered the blog. The anonymous defamer’s attorneys challenged the suit, insisting that federal law protects their client’s online speech. Today, both sides met in court to duke it out.
The courtroom scene was Google’s worst nightmare. On the one hand, the company has come under fire for collecting personal information from its users and storing it for months; if Google gave up the blogger too eagerly, its worst critics would have another barb with which to accuse it of playing fast and loose with its customers’ privacy. On the other hand, who wants to be seen protecting some nasty, small-minded, cowardly gossip?
via Obscenities Fly In “Skank” Hearing The Big Money.
BEIJING — China warned Google and other popular Web portals Monday that they must do more to block pornographic material from reaching Chinese users, the latest in a series of government crackdowns targeting Internet content.
The crackdown focused on pornography but is part of a larger Chinese effort to control freedom of expression and root out material it considers destabilizing, such as sites that criticize the Communist Party, promote democratic reform or advocate Taiwan independence.
Pornography is banned in China but remains widely available on and off the Internet. Popular Chinese Web portals frequently show sexually explicit pictures and provide links to pornographic Web sites.
China Targets Google In Crackdown On Pornography.
A quick Google search for “sex” returns a whopping 67 million pages. A search for “porn” turns up more than 18 million pages.
As popular and ubiquitous as sex is on the Internet, it would seem like a natural fit for Web-based businesses looking to attract page views and revenue.
But some big sites built on user-shared content have decided it’s smart business to limit sexually explicit material.
YouTube and Ning Just Say No to Sex – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.
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