Apple Bans 2ch for “Hate Speech & Porn”
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 2, 2013 05:34 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Apple, Censorship, Internet, Otaku, Technology, Twitter
Apple has banned all 2ch-related Apps from its app store for offering too-ready access to porn and hurtful remarks.
Their decision was reported by the developers of a 2ch.net browser app, one of several listed, who suddenly found their product banned.
They report that Apple withdrew permission for their app to be listed as “it is our policy not approve apps which facilitate access to pornographic images or violent expressions.”
Even Apple had to address why it would permit Internet browsers or Twitter apps to offer access to such content whilst banning 2ch-browsers – it says the difference is down to “the frequency and ease of access to” porn and slander on 2ch.
Apple also states that it will be getting rid of any other apps which facilitate access to the site, leaving users with no option but to use a browser or give up on their unhealthy non-Apple approved content altogether.
Apple’s decision means that such apps will no longer be listed on its marketplace, and that no further updates will be possible for them, although (for now at least) it will not be remotely disabling existing installations.
2ch’s atrocious design and purely text-based interface have long supported a large ecosystem of popular 2ch-browsers, plugins and external archive sites, so forcing users to rely on a traditional browser for their 2ch-browsing needs is likely to prove a major inconvenience.
The majority of boards on 2ch itself are concerned with uncontroversial content, but anonymous participation, nearly non-existent moderation throughout and the presence of some highly controversial boards have ensured it has maintained its “underground” image despite its massive popularity in Japan.
There has not surprisingly been a great deal of criticism of the decision on 2ch itself – most of whom now seem resigned to either using their existing apps without updates for as long as possible, or else switching to Android.
Why Apple would block 2ch whilst allowing the likes of Pixiv, DMM and others has also been the subject of some speculation – reasons other than Apple’s hatred of porn and free speech are thought likely to be at play.
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Apple: Trying to ban porn from the internet.
A appke can't ban a sexy snake.
Apple doesn't like competition in raping people.
They have a patent for that and will go thermonuclear on any other company trying to be an asshole.
Apple seems a little mad...
You wish. They probably took less than 15 minutes to decide this issue. I love it when small-named fools think they are some kind of target of revenge when Apple probably took a few minutes to look and said, "LOL what a bunch of idiots. Let's ban", and moved on.
These 2ch guys were idiots for making apps for shitty apple products anyway. They should have picked the better OS which is android.
Android isn't really the better OS as far as technology is concerned (Java? Really?). But at least it's free and open and uncensored and has all the basic Unix goodies to play around with in a terminal readily available.
You mean the superior Apple technology designed to force feed you additional superior priced Apple technology?
Do you even know what technology means? It's certainly not Objective-C's fault that Apple is using it. But it's sure as hell a much better platform language than Java. Ughh.
What is wrong with Java? Seems like a good choice to me. Besides you can use the NDK and program in some other language if, for some reason, you need that.
10:49 No you can't. If you want to write an app usable from within the familiar Android launcher environment (as opposed to a program in general), you at least have to provide a Java front-end. The Android platform dictates it.
And regarding Java, everything is wrong with it. Everything. There is no real other way to answer this question.
Object C in Apple's Sandbox is actually much worse to deal with than Java's limitations.
But even if you personally dislike Java, it is a senseless discussion. The App development language is hardly something relevant to compare OS capabilities.
You do know that Apple's OS is just a heavily modified, proprietary version of Unix right? So really there isn't much difference on the "better" scale.
I am very aware of that. And it would be all nice and dandy if iOS wouldn't go to great pains to hide that from you.
What use is a Unix if you can't use a terminal in any meaningful manner because you simply don't have the privileges to do so unless you jailbreak? Basic binutils and a terminal is available to the Android user from the get go. That's why i wrote readily available.
no, you're not aware of that
Free and open? What world do you live in? Android isn't free, companies selling Android devices have to pay a licence fee to Microsoft. It isn't guaranteed to be open, either. Most of it is licensed under ASL rather than GPL, so Google don't actually have to release the source code. So far they have done that some months after the product release, but who knows what might happen in the future?
No, it is free because the ASL guarantees freedom. And it's open in all but name, for all intends and purposes. Cyanogen Mod isn't going away even if Google inexplicably decides to close the AOSP. What little innovations Google makes to the kernel is re-implementable easy enough. Heck you could go ahead, fork a suitable Linux version and have a working Jelly Bean kernel in well under a month.
Good any one retarded enough to use apple products is likely to get themselves hurt on 2ch.
I think this is more of a win/win situation. Appletards lose variations in apps and get monopolised, but blocking out the fuckery of 2ch cancer is doing society a favor.
Butthurt nationalist japs and 2chan tards don't like being critisized. They're willing to go as far as ask for governmental help to remove criticism about them. Latest of such is the one of medamasensei.
This is the big differece between Americans and Japanese. Americans has been taking shit for years now and aren't ashamed to admit their wrongs. Japanese on the otherhand always plays the blame game and deny their bullshit.
Exactly. Japan's a major bitch that's going around with a loud mouth and always either break down and cry helplessly or otherwise try to cover their tracks when something REALLY hard happens.
Japan barely even whines on interntional levels, nor do they generate whiny movements.
The US is the global bitching queen and its people are the gayest whiners on earth.
You can't read the international news for a week without some new US group, minority, hurt person, angry mom or plastic politician whining for something new and the US complaining about something or someone hurting their interestests globally.
For like the United States is willing to 'bitch' when we are treated wrongly by other nations and not just shut up because some people tell us to just 'deal with it'.
12:19
You should read something about their economists, businessmen, diplomats, or other idiots being fags around the globe. Of course, too many people are gullible and not notice all their 'sweeping it all under the carpet all the time'.
You really don't know shit about these cunts if you think they are not putting around bitching contests around the world. At least when US makes an issue of something they see it through one way or the other. Japs just mouth off.
I'm sure that if you ever took the "Heads of Industry" who love to rave how good they are at business while shrieking for the teat of government welfare, and you did some "Time Machine" thing and dropped them several hundred years ago with a horse/camel and packs of goods to sell, most would be starving within a week.
Things like this are proof. They end up making bland, PC junk and working harder to keep anything they don't agree with out of their markets rather than adapting to it. Ever played/heard of "Smuggle Truck"? Oh, wait, it's "Snuggle Truck" on Apple and that's only after Android let it through and it got very popular.
Thank goodness I don't own any Apple products. I wouldn't be able to masturbate to porn.
They do have a App for porn...
They gonna ban web browsers, including their own, next?
I thought Apple banned any competing software product from their AppStore. Are there any other web browsers on it?
Anyway, they can just deploy DNS filtering to block websites. Unlike ISP level filtering, iOS can block you from manually overriding address resolution queries if Apple wants to.
Who cares?
2ch is cancer anyway.
Sent from my iPhone 7.
Damn it, why can't Apple do one thing right for once, and keep their fantards out of Sankaku?
Welcome to the Internet,
Where sarcasm and trolling is the law of the land.
If it's sarcasm, it's poorly done. There is nothing to suggest that the comment is not genuine. Either way, the ridicule is well deserved.
You mean other than the "Sent from my iPhone 7" thing?
Somebody still buys and uses iphones?
No wai.
Sent by retard from 2ch.
Sup jap bitch.
Fucking hypocrites, they better put their money where their mouth is and ban reddit apps next.
STFU SHIT HEAD! YOU KNOW FUCK ALL OBVIOUSLY SHIT HEAD!
OH LOOK THE BUTTHURT LOSERS DOWN VOTED ME! I GUESS THEY SO BUTTHURT AFTER ALL BOO HOO HOO!
You got downvoted because you are retarded.
Why? Both accounts are true. Not to mention 2chan is composed of entirely retards, while shining examples of human decency such as Reddit are not... quite there.
And Apple crapware serves a vital function - so that we can tell the meatware apart from intelligent people at a glance.
Well, Reddit staff have had their willing complicity in hosting child porn and hate speech already made public via leaked chatlogs. I don't believe Hiroyuki or other 2ch staff had that happen to them yet.
Even Japanese people consider 2ch to be nothing more than graffiti on the toilet wall.
@07:42 Really? Even though half of Japan is using it? I guess Japan is tsundere for itself then.
I believe 2ch is thought to have around 20~30 million unique users (can't be bothered to check that now, it was definitely in that order of magnitude). You certainly can't lump them all together. I'd say reddit and 2ch are about equally bad.
2chan turns normal ppl irl into retards online. Yes, they're all retards... when they're on 2chan.
OK, first of all 2ch and 2chan are two different sites. Also, whatever trolling posts are selected and translated on sites like this one are not a representative sample of all posts there. Go take a look at those boards for a while before commenting on how everyone there is a retard.
@09:59
It's internet as a whole, not just some sites.
They are japs. Being narrow-eyed bitches is their lot in life. What else did you expect?
Are you saying you can't just as easily find porn, and racism on reddit? There's probably more subreddits dedicated to niche fetishes than there are to anything else.
One of the most popular boards is a place for users to post naked pictures of themselves.
O man do get me started om some of the weird subreddits I've seen. Worst one I've ever been to was one about penis mutilation. Shit was just sick man. How the hell do you live your life after you've grinned your dick into paste in a meat grater.
Well, thank you 12:37. :c
2chan and 2ch are different things. lol
2chan is spinoff of 2ch, as 2chan.us are spinoff of 2chan.net. 2chan.net admin said it himself that they were "inspired" by 2ch. More importantly, 2ch users refer to themselves as 2ch and 2chan interchangeably, meaning 2ch, of course, not the number of spinoffs.
Doesn't matter, reddit has a usable interface.
You've never used "Alienblue" have you? I can't imagine browsing reddit without it anymore.
I never use 2ch, but can't they just use the browsers like many out there or do they deny access?
btw, 2ch is massively popular, if Apple keeps this up, their world market share might slip even more rapidly.
"can't they just use the browsers"
They can. It even was in the article.
Damn it!!! They fucked up big time. Just watch 2chan retaliate with extreme verbal force!
What does the rage of thousands of angry 2chaners sound like? I'm guessing some sort of fizzling fart noise?
More like a huge diarrhea attack, combined with extensive vomiting.
2ch's web interface is an eyesore in the literal sense; all the topics and threads are clumped together in hyperlinks divided by nothing but one space.
The 4chan browsing app had already been banned before after some jok reviews stating it was fun for kids and angry mom letters.
4chan app got banned on the old Android marketplace a long time ago...so Google is a bit of a goodie too shoes themselves.