Erotickles
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This is a local communities building app. It is designed to allow users to “form local groups of like minded people, interact, make new friends, arrange meetups in real life, and hopefully – form meaningful relationships of all sorts”.
An app is not “pornographic” or "sexual" just because it is aimed for subscribers to an alternative sexual orientation. An easy example to this would be an IDENTICAL app aimed at the LGBT community.
In a conscious effort to make the app friendly and legit:
*The app does not allow sharing of any media between users, publicly or privately – so it cannot be used to share pornography, nor does it contain itself anything that can be considered as adult graphics.
*The tutorial shown upon first app launch clearly states its being free of any adult-graphics. It states its aim to service community interaction - and the banning of the sale of any sexual or semi-sexual services between users. It further calls on its users to help make it a safe and inviting space.
The above text is the statement I sent Google, in response to the message I got from them yesterday evening: The app “Tickles in your area” was suspended, due to “Violation of Sexually Explicit Content policy”.
There is no real reason for this suspension, and there are some indications that it was actually an automated action, triggered by the “boogyman” words: “human sexuality” and “kinksters” - in the app’s description.
I do hope that my appeal will be accepted shortly, and I hope a similar problem – which I am sure is just waiting to happen on the Apple front – will too be solved swiftly too if it indeed arises.
However – this may not work fluently. This may turn out to be our first “all hands on deck” test:
We may need to go on a letter writing campaign – just to be recognized – just to convince that we deserve a place in the world.
To be continued.
Apart from that – a few other updates:
I have been working on preparing the app for IOS. This is ongoing. There were further some design changes and bug fixes since the recording of the demo video.
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