This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel
If you were planning to install 500px’s popular photo sharing app on your iPhone or iPad today, you’re out of luck. The app was abruptly yanked from the iTunes App Store earlier today over the fact that users can search for photos showing artistic nudity.500px co-founder Evgeny Tchebotarev tells us that the situation started last night after the company received a call from Apple, informing them that their latest version 2.0.3 update could not be approved due to the reason stated above.
Although the company promised a fix within the next day, Apple sent an email an hour later informing the company that the app would be pulled entirely. It made good on its word at around 10am-12pm EST today.
This is what you’ll see now when you try to pull up the 500px app in iTunes
500px is currently working to modify its backend to minimize the number of artistic nudes that can be searched for. This change will affect both future 500px app versions and 3rd party apps that use the company’s API. Tchebotarev tells us,
We are always working on better filtering, and before the change, any new account was ‘safe’ by …
By: Michael Zhang
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