The latest nudie drama coming from the iTunes App Store centers around a vicious free app called BeautyMeter which mirrors the concept behind the popular online website "Hot or Not". The app produced by developers Funnymals, allows people desperate for any kind of attention to upload photos of themselves to be rated by a community of gawkers.
Photos are rated by giving stars based on three criteria: face, body and clothes. With the latter criteria being of lesser importance.
A wildfire of controversy was set off on Wednesday when Krapps.com, uncovered several sexually explicit pictures of some girls who list their age as 16. One photo features a 15-year old flasher posing topless, including a deliberate pantie dip as she poses for the camera. The app was quickly pulled from the App Store and sent directly to developer hell with the Baby Shaker app.
If you recall, it was also Krapps.com that first exposed "Baby Shaker", the farcical baby killing simulator app that sparked a shit storm of controversy in the media. This latest full-throttle, underage, nudie thrill ride marks the second public relations disaster for Apple exposed inside of a week. Last week the app, Hottest Girls steamed up bathroom mirrors with its own displays of topless ladies that just happened to slip past Apple screeners. The app lasted less than 24 hours before being banished.
While I could wax on about this subject for another few paragraphs, I think it's best you absorb the entire shiteree over at Krapps. The wildly popular app review site has earned the spotlight on this ginormous discovery. When the smoke clears I would look for another public apology from Apple who've managed to be caught with their pants down once again as the App Store approval machine grinds onward. How do you spell fail?
[Screenshots courtesy of Krapps]
As stated above it was their choice, but i don't understand why the second photo is pulled. She could be 20, There is no evidence supporting she isn't.
Posted by: Jim | November 13, 2010 at 07:24 PM
i am sorry. James Andrews is incorrect. John is correct.
Posted by: Johnathan | December 03, 2009 at 03:30 PM
James Andrews is correct. I have been studying law and rights for the past twelve years and i come from a family of lawyers. There is a distinct difference between child nudity and pornography. Child nudity is only pictures or video clips of a child nude with NO sexual activity once so ever. Child nudity videos are only legal when a the child being exposed is recording the video. Child pornography is any kind of video of a child that is shown to the public that contain any kind of sexual activity (sexual intercourse, masturbation, etc).
Child nudity is in fact not illigal but is demanded to be removed as soon as discovered. Child nudity is only legal if the child in the picture is holding a camera and the camera is visible. The only way the person, website, or in this case the owner of this application can be sent to court is if he/she is getting sued. In no means is it necessary to completely remove the object (the app. in this case)due to children posting pictures of themselves nude. The best solution to the problem is by adding a flag key on this app so the people who viewed the image of the child can report the image to be deleted as soon as possible.
Child pornography, on the other hand, is strictly illegal. If a picture of a child having sexual intercourse was posted on this app, again the best solution is to delete the picture immediately. I do not understand why sexting is classified as child pornography but that is something i have not learned. Sexting in my opinion should be legal. If the receiver shares the picture of the sender and people harass the sender, it's their problem. It should just be sext at your own risk.
I believe it was not necessary to delete this application due to child nudity.
Posted by: Johnathan | December 03, 2009 at 03:28 PM
what a damn whore.i go to high school and this kind of stuff is everywhere!They want to be whores...let them be whores.
Posted by: Rachel | October 12, 2009 at 09:49 AM
15 YEAR OLDS HAVE A WHAT?!?! WHAT THE HELL?!?! YOU'RE JUST THE PERV WHO WANTS THIS ON THE INTERNET!!! That 15 year old girl needs a good BEATING from her parents and a BIG dose of humility!
Posted by: James Andrews | July 06, 2009 at 09:23 PM
This is not porn it's nude girls, there is a diffrence. They have a constitutional right to do this.
Posted by: John | July 05, 2009 at 02:58 AM
They should repost the App and call it Rate-A-Skank under the iTeen Porn category.
Still no StarPlayr or Howard, but now there's an App for that, anonymous under age freak show. Wonderful.
Posted by: gt | July 02, 2009 at 04:40 PM
First, GAWKERs aren't desperate for any kind of attention, GAWKEEs are.
Second, if the girl listed her age as 16, how did she transform into a 15-year-old?
Slow down...
Posted by: Calvathson | July 02, 2009 at 08:12 AM
Next up for the chopping board: PhotoKast, PhotoSwap, Grindr X, WhosHere, BrightKite.
Further down the road: Facebook, Twitter, FlickIt and just about any social networking application with direct messaging and photo upload built in. And of course Mobile Safari.
The bottom line is, Apple should draw a clear line as to why it has that parental controls and age rating system implemented in the first place.
The iPhone is an expensive device owned by many an adult, and any attempt to keep it child-friendly (beyond the aforementioned ratings and restrictions implementation) is bound to end up circumvented.
Just create an Adult category, restrict access with age verification, and be done with it. It's not a new concept.
Posted by: bravelittlememe | July 02, 2009 at 02:22 AM