Apple Should Ban Bing Because of Porn
Apple bans other apps for displaying porn, why not Bing?
Gizmodo posts a very comical observation about Bing's presence on the Apple App Store. Sure, Microsoft's search engine app is an excellent tool in searching for whatever you need on the Internet. It also looks rather spiffy in the process thanks to a sleek, easy-to-use interface and a visually appealing design. But as we've come to discover--and frequently mention--since it's virtual birth back on June 1, 2009, Bing is an honest-to-gosh excellent tool for finding porn on the World Wide Web.
Don't believe us? Disable the filter and load up a few... topics. It's uncanny ability to find hardcore naughtiness makes it the browser of choice... even though it's not really a browser in the first place. With that said, Gizmodo calls on Apple to delete Bing from its online store for that very reason: because all it takes is one click to turn off the adult content filter in the Preferences to let the nakedness flow.
Remember how the brainy Apple App scientists prefer to not let apps roam the store that feature anything that could provide nudity, nakedness, or just plain naughtiness? Sometimes it slips through anyway, only to be yanked right off the stage days later. Apple's policies are broken, allowing some applications and banning others providing similar offenses. Adult content provided by previously banned apps can be easily found on the iPhone and iPod Touch thanks to Bing.
But as Gizmodo points out, Bing won't be kicked out thanks to Microsoft's solid name. After all, we're not talking about a start-up developer trying to slip in a few boobies or naming its apps based on cats and birds. We're talking about Microsoft, and it's apparent that the company can do just about anything it wants (before legal hounds come growling). That's not the issue. The issue here is censorship, and it should stop. Like Gizmodo said, let the people decide what they can do with their gadgets. If they want pocket-sized smut machines, then so be it. It's their investment, their property.
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"Disable the filter"
I'm sure you can get porn off any search engine if you disable the porn guard.
this is so stupid i can't even think of a comment aside from one expressing how stupid it is. i would like to see an apple based search engine, just to see what they do with this matter.
"Disable the filter"I'm sure you can get porn off any search engine if you disable the porn guard.
That's not the point of the article. The article is referring to iphone/ipod and Apple's double and broken standards in censoring applications for the devices.
Google does the exact same thing. Any search engine does the exact same thing.
Problem is, Apple is a control freak and likes to control everying that their users can and can't do
umm...you can get porn easy by using google which comes on the device. They just want an excuse to get microsoft off the app store.
Sorry, but a search engine that could theoretically be used to search for porn is not the same as an app specifically written to provide porn. The comparison is completely retarded. It's like saying Walmart shouldn't sell satellite dishes because you can use the receiver to access porn channels.
So are people really upset that Apple restricts their access to porn on the iPhone or something? How big of a loser can you be?
Google does the exact same thing. Any search engine does the exact same thing.
As said in the article, Bing just seems to have a knack for doing it better though.
so are they going to ban the internet entirely? there's nudity there after all.
saying that, why not just ban real life and be done with it?
who gets offended by nudity anyway?...
[in the picture]: some tom's hardware guys were searching for "big tits" hahaha
Yo Gizmodo. FUCK YOU. If someone wants to search for porn on their Iphone or Ipod, that is their choice.
Gizmodo, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TRYING TO TELL PEOPLE NOT TO WATCH PORN. LIKE THERE IS A SINGLE PERSON ON YOUR STAFF THAT ISNT A PERVERT!
Isnt this great, just shows how easiley screwed the iphone users are. Like crack addicts who only can get their "shit" from one place unless they jailbreak their overpriced hardware. No one anywhere near sane would purchase such limited toys...
Yeah... every search engine can find porn if you turn off the search filter... if it didn't, that would make it pretty flawed wouldn't it? Especially considering how big the online porn industry is. That owuld lose any search engine company a lot of money.
And furthermore, you can go to Safari and navigate to another search engine and find porn too. Let's hope that Gizmodo doesn't make that become an article too.
The iPhone has an internet browser, that's the ultimate app to watch a porn!
I totally agree with blasterth. the freakin internet is accessible from ur phone. enough said
I highly doubt that Bing is the only search engine that will turn up porn in the results if you put "porn" as a search term. I know Google censors search results, but if they got rid of all of the porn, then I'd expect their market share to drop precipitously. Because, you know, the Internet is for porn.
Apple Almighty can't even get it's own intentions straight let alone be trusted to "control" things that we see. They are somewhat like the conundrum of a politician accusing another politician of playing politics.
Worse, people believe badly of the accused politician but think well of the accusing politician even though that one is just as bad.
the internet is for porn. nuf said.
Are you kidding me?! Does the iPhone not have something called "safari" which has direct and unfiltered access to the "Internet"?! If someone wants to watch pron on their iPhone, googling iPhone porn would work 10x better than going through the trouble of downloading a 3rd party app, disabling filters, then being on your jolly way. The only reason there is an issue with this app is because people want to QQ about Microsoft. "oh no, microsofts app searches the Internet, and if I search something naughty, something naughty comes up" it's the internet, probably 40% of it's content is something naughty so deal with it!
Yo Gizmodo. FUCK YOU. If someone wants to search for porn on their Iphone or Ipod, that is their choice. Gizmodo, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TRYING TO TELL PEOPLE NOT TO WATCH PORN. LIKE THERE IS A SINGLE PERSON ON YOUR STAFF THAT ISNT A PERVERT!
You didn't read the article did you? They're trying to point out Apple hypocrisy, show them how silly their rules for apps are, not actually get the apps themselves banned. Learn to read.
Nukes Scare the Hell Out Of the US DOD -> DOD Invents TCP/IP -> Internet Born -> Porn indistry creates technologies to revolutionize and expand internet -> Apple design's IPhone around these technologies -> Apple bans porn and other random apps that don't fit their non-existant content rules? WTF? Way to fit in with the internet Apple *sarcasm*
um... lots of people here are missing the point. the point being that this is a specially crafted applet, that makes bing's search output look appropriate on the iphone screen... it's not the backend search function that Gizmondo has a problem with, it's the fact that apple bans other applets that allow porn or the access of porn on the iphone. they (gizmondo) don't even give an opinion on porn, in general, at all. they simply are using bing's applet as an glaring example that apple's validation process is horribly dysfunctional.
The real issue is that apple doesnt want porn apps coming up in itunes. It has nothing to do with the web browsing aspect. It would be bad for Apple's business if parents knew there were porn apps on itunes.
So many of you are missing the point of the article it's ridiculous.
It's all about Apple's rules of which Apps they allow to be in their App store, no about getting the Bing App banned. Bing is simply used as an example of an App that allows user to browse porn, yet is still allowed in the App Store.
Apple has the right to regulate its app store. It may not have the right to regulate content on your device.
Microsoft has a great search engine, and I keep myself in check by never exploiting its "entertaining features" by disabling the default filter. Stupid people with less self control do that.
That's not the point of the article. The article is referring to iphone/ipod and Apple's double and broken standards in censoring applications for the devices.
Of course. But they still chose to single out Bing. Kevin just parrots the original article and slaps a sensationalist headline on it. Plus, comparing a search engine with an enabled-by-default filter, vs a program without such a filter, is not strictly apples to apples.
As said in the article, Bing just seems to have a knack for doing it better though.
Where in this article did they point out that other popular search engines would do the same thing, if they also had their filter disabled? Oh, they didn't. Gizmodo should have called on them to ban all search engines with image results, as well as the ability to display pictures on the phone. Oh wait! That wouldn't make sense either. Gizmodo is just overreacting. An app with porn available either on purpose, or hidden, with no filter vs. a search engine with a filter turned on by default, PLUS you have to go out of your way to search for the explicit content. NOT the same thing.
As a follow-up I will agree that Apple needs to have more specific standards for what is allowed and what is not allowed, and stick to them. They are control freaks, and that's why I don't use their hardware in the first place.
so what?...
and more important... who/what is Gizmodo?