Sugar Daddy: Google to ban sex trafficking apps
One of the most popular apps on the planet is called Tinder. It allows singles around the world to match (= connect), get in touch in any city around the world and meet in person if things go that way.
If the principle is initially intended as the pinnacle of romanticism, no need to hide that it also serves a lot (mainly?) to people who don’t want to spend the evening alone and who are not against an innocent one-night stand. We are still far from the romantic comedy scenario with the looks that meet in a subway and the characters who spend a week meeting each other.
Yet in the world of facilitating sex, Tinder very soft compared to other apps that play the map of Sugar daddy. Even further from any idea of a love story, the principle is simple. One person requisitions the presence and company of another who is rewarded with gifts and money. Even if all combinations are possible, a Sugar Daddy is in the collective unconscious an older man who likes to surround himself with a young woman for a night out.
Except company can implicitly involve sex and money + sex = prostitution = illegal.
Google decided to clean up his Play store.
Sweet games for savory fines?
This kind of applications is however legion on the large market of Google. You just have to type “Sugar Daddy” in the search bar and you will fall for on dozens of variations of the same initial idea. Of Honey To Millionaire Passing by Gay Sudy Where CougarD, There is something for every taste.
However, these applications should very soon disappear from the Play store, from 1er September itself. This is indeed what has been announced in the latest policy update Play store. Applications facilitating paid sex will be outright banned on the platform. This new restriction directly targets apps from Sugar daddy.
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This is how the American firm describes the potential targets of this ban in its new rules :
Applications promoting sexual entertainment, hostess services or other services which may be interpreted as offering sex in exchange for remuneration.
Questioned by our colleagues from Android Police, the representatives of Google explained the reason for this policy change :
As a platform, we are always happy to support our developer partners, but we also work hard to provide a safe experience for users. We have updated our inappropriate content policy to ban apps that facilitate sexual acts in exchange for compensation following feedback we have received from NGOs, governments and other user advocacy groups affected by the abuse. user safety. This aligns our policies with other Google policies and industry standards.
In front of this beautiful case of conscience hides perhaps also the fear of receiving a big fine. American law FOSTA (Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) was signed in 2018 by Donald Trump in order to fight against sex trafficking.
The text exposes the sites and platforms that facilitate prostitution to criminal penalties and service closures.
So be careful, this just means that the applications of Sugar daddy will no longer be available on the Play store, and not not found elsewhere. It will be fair to you a little more complicated to install them on your smartphones since it will be necessary to use an APK file, sometimes with its share of surprises …
