For the record, the guy actually invented this with the intent of it being used to crack down on human trafficking. Traffickers often cover their victims in heavy/unusual makeup before posting pics of them online, to make them harder to detect using normal software.
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So basically this is a case of really shitty reporting. The article could have been about an app used to rescue victims of trafficking but they decided to flippantly make it about make-up
everyone who asks why im going catholic asks it in a setting where it feels like i’d have to explain it in 10 seconds or less and like….. its a bit more complex than that fam if you want a real answer we gotta take this conversation somewhere other than waiting for the fast food we ordered
not joking, not lighthearted, fuck tumblr staff. it’s inexcusable to be so fucking incompetent that enough child. pornography. gets through the filters that apple has to remove the app from the app store. you cant just throw your hands up and say “we tried our best!!! some stuff just slips through the filters!!! :(” it doesn’t with other sites of this size! at least not to a degree where APPLE HAS TO DELETE THE FUCKING APP FROM THE APP STORE! fuck this terrible website and the people who run it