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This seems like it could be applied to any app designed to display user-generated content on a single site or family of sites, obviously including Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. since I'm pretty sure it's possible to find nudity on any of those just with some casual browsing.

Should also probably be applied to Messenger, Hangouts, Skype, Duo, WhatsApp, etc. since I'm pretty sure there's nudity and sexual content on those as well, and you can likely find it pretty easily.

For that matter, I'm pretty sure I can find explicitly sexual content in Chrome running on Android. Has Google considered what a potential disaster this could be for them? Perhaps they should remove Chrome and other general-purpose web browsing apps, or define what it is that makes those applications different from the ones they do ban.

On a different note, can this be applied to reverse some annoying things? Does Reddit allow access to "adult" areas in the mobile app and if not do they play the annoying "wouldn't you like to use the app instead" in those areas on mobile browsers? Can you bypass that by marking your subreddit as "adult" if you don't have a significant volume of under-18 readers?

Edit: "Google Android: Like AOL, but with less porn! And we have Candy Crush!"



There's a pretty obvious separation though between public and private media apps. I doubt private chat apps will get heat like this.


I've never used WhatsApp so I'm not sure how public vs private it is, but apparently it has a child porn problem: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/whatsapp-pornography/ (also see many results for "whatsapp child porn" with different variations of related info). Would that be one of those private chat apps?




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