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because I can freely download two different child pornography generating apps on Apple's App Store and the Google Play store, both very popular and highly ranked, I must conclude that Apple and Google endorse that activity

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.

nbcnews.comSenators urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes“Turning a blind eye to X’s egregious behavior would make a mockery of your moderation practices,” three Democratic senators wrote to Apple’s and Google’s CEOs.

9/1/26, 4:19 pm219 reposts785 likes

jimbobmcg.bsky.social

@jimbobmcg.bsky.social

10 Jan

Maybe if we had senators that would do more than 'urge' companies to do something for them we wouldn't have to urge them at all

RawrTigerlily

@rawrtigerlily.bsky.social

9 Jan

But you can’t download ICEblock, because they don’t want to be on the wrong side of fascists & abusers on that front, either. 🤷‍♀️

ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper.com

9 Jan

I make sure to communicate this to all advertising and marketing businesses during my daily activities. "Apple and Google officially approve of and sanction the generation of child pornography," I tell executives

ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper.com

12 Jan

I favor more of a one strike policy, but it's a start bsky.app/profile/luja...

Senator Ben Ray Luján@lujan.senate.gov

X’s Grok AI tool is being used to generate nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children. This is unacceptable. @wyden.senate.gov, @markey.senate.gov, and I are demanding that Apple and Google remove X and Grok from their app stores until Elon Musk addresses these heinous violations.

Ian Robberson

@microberust.bsky.social

12 Jan

Very glad to see my Senator saying this, especially after calling his office about this exact subject last week.

Lara Rene

@fedupnow1.bsky.social

12 Jan

So glad I have been boycotting apple for years, it's Google turn now.

David Dayen

@ddayen.bsky.social

9 Jan

One thing about this is that Apple and Google app stores have already been pried open to competition in a series of private litigations finding them to be illegal monopolies. So they don't have closed systems anymore, and incidents like these can actually have impact, as people have a choice.