Is Mirror Apps Lyudmila Bouzinova Pornographic Or Obscene?
*See update below* The Mirror App, a tool created for iPhone 4 that turns the front-facing camera into a vanity mirror with various light and color settings, was temporarily banned from the iTunes store after the Apple deemed some of the content “obscene, pornographic, or defamatory.” The “objectional” material happened to be images of America’s Next Top Model contestant Lyudmila (‘Mila’) Bouzinova, who was pictured in the app’s demo screenshots. Bouzinova appeared shirtless, but is shown only from the shoulders up. (You can view some of these images here.) According to the app’s official rejection letter from Apple, reproduced by Appmodo, these screenshots were dubbed “objectionable to certain age groups” and did not “meet the requirements for a 4+ rating (no objectionable material).” Once DLP Mobile removed the images, Apple approved the Mirror App. Nevertheless, a spokesperson for DLP Mobile told the Huffington Post that it was a “gross exaggeration” on the part of “Job’s [sic] army
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