- A ton of cam models have private snapchat accounts where they share porn of themselves
- Reddit is basically a cornucopia of porn
- I can subscribe to a porn email list
- Share nudes to a group of friends on Facebook or even SMS
- I can join a hundred Discord channel to satisfy every single weird ass fetish I have,
- I can outright buy porn from Amazon and have it home delivered in 30 minutes.
And that's just from the top of my head. I'm sure you can find a metric ton of other apps that provide their users with easy access to sexual content. None of those apps will be banned for it since that is not the primary purpose of any of these apps. It's simply something that you're able to do with the tools provided. This is like banning all knives just because someone got stabbed.
If your plan is to ban apps that provide access to pornographic content, then you're gonna have to do a lot of banning.
I would also argue that a public blogsite where tagging and discovering new content is one of the key selling points of the platform, is very different from a Telegram channel where you need to specifically know the channel name to even join. As long as Telegram puts forth their best effort to eliminate illegal content from channels, they should be fine.
It might be OK for one app to allow such content and it might be not OK for Telegram. Because Telegram earlier had issues with Apple [1] and if they violate Apple's rules again it would become a convenient excuse to remove Telegram from App Store.
You are trying to find a reasoning in Apple's decisions, but isn't it easier to assume that not all apps are equally welcome in a private app store?
- Instagram is stock full of sexual content
- A ton of cam models have private snapchat accounts where they share porn of themselves
- Reddit is basically a cornucopia of porn
- I can subscribe to a porn email list
- Share nudes to a group of friends on Facebook or even SMS
- I can join a hundred Discord channel to satisfy every single weird ass fetish I have,
- I can outright buy porn from Amazon and have it home delivered in 30 minutes.
And that's just from the top of my head. I'm sure you can find a metric ton of other apps that provide their users with easy access to sexual content. None of those apps will be banned for it since that is not the primary purpose of any of these apps. It's simply something that you're able to do with the tools provided. This is like banning all knives just because someone got stabbed.
If your plan is to ban apps that provide access to pornographic content, then you're gonna have to do a lot of banning.
Tumblr itself wasn't banned for porn, it was banned for child porn https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/20/18104366/tumblr-ios-app-...
I would also argue that a public blogsite where tagging and discovering new content is one of the key selling points of the platform, is very different from a Telegram channel where you need to specifically know the channel name to even join. As long as Telegram puts forth their best effort to eliminate illegal content from channels, they should be fine.