Week the Telegram application has been deleted from the AppStore by the Apple company, its disappearance leaving a whole world with many question marks regarding the problem. The Apple company explained to Telegram's CEO that the application was deleted from the AppStore due to problems generated by the transmission of inappropriate content.
Well, today the vice president of Apple's marketing division, Phil Schiller, stated that the Telegram application was deleted from the AppStore because it was used to distribute child pornography. The Apple company has an extremely strict policy regarding the distribution of this type of content through the applications available in the AppStore.
Apple has also notified the US authorities about the content discovered within the application, and those from Telegram will have to provide identification information. The Telegram application was deleted from the AppStore for a few hours, and after Apple verified that the problem was resolved, the application was republished in the store.
Apple's policy regarding the content displayed in applications should not be surprising, as the American company also deleted applications with adult pornographic content in the past, Steve Jobs being firmly against them.
"The Telegram apps were taken down off the App Store because the App Store team was alerted to illegal content, specifically child pornography, in the apps. After verifying the existence of the illegal content, the team took the apps down from the store, alerted the developer, and notified the proper authorities, including the NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children).
The App Store team worked with the developer to have them remove this illegal content from the apps and ban the users who posted this horrible content. Only after it was verified that the developer had taken these actions and put in place more controls to keep this illegal activity from happening again were these apps reinstated on the App Store.
We will never allow illegal content to be distributed by apps in the App Store and we will take swift action whenever we learn of such activity. Most of all, we have zero tolerance for any activity that puts children at risk – child pornography is at the top of the list of what must never occur. It is evil, illegal, and immoral.
I hope you appreciate the importance of our actions to not distribute apps on the App Store while they contain illegal content and to take swift action against anyone and any app involved in content that puts children at risk."
