Google bans porn on Google Glass; sorry ‘T*** and Glass’

Google bans porn on Google Glass; sorry ‘T*** and Glass’

Glassware that violates the policy won't be able to appear on Glass, according to a company spokesperson.

It didn’t take long for porn to try to gain a foothold with Google’s new product, Google Glass.

Adult content apps developer MiKandi recently released “T*** and Glass” where users can look at and vote on and browse through ‘sexy’ content. Glass users can record and upload their own content to the site thanks to a screen and camera google placed above the eye.

Interested Google Glass users visited the adult site in droves, to the tune of over 10,000 people, though just 17 Glass owners installed the app, according to the company.

Google moved quickly to quash interested parties from using its product to peruse adult “entertainment.” Its Glass Platform Developer Policies strictly forbids content with nudity, graphic sex or explicitly sexual material.

Glassware that violates the policy won’t be able to appear on Glass, according to a company spokesperson. There is some question as to when the policy was added, as the company told ABC News it was last week, though its own website indicated it was updated just Saturday.

MiKandi officials insisted they were aware of Google’s terms and believed they were within their boundaries when they made their app available to the public.

“When we first picked up our device, we were very careful to comb through all of Google’s terms, policies and developers’ agreement to make sure we were playing within their rules. That was important to us to play in Google’s boundaries,” Jennifer McEwen, co-founder of MiKandi, told ABC News. “Even last week as we were gearing up to make the announcement, we took a look the agreement and there was no mention again of a ban on adult content.”

MiKandi executives said they were surprised at the difficulties they were encountering with Glass, considering the openness of Android devices for which they have a third-party app store for.

There is no Glass app store yet, so Google hasn’t completely banned MiKandi. MiKandi executives indicated they will change the app to fit Google’s policies but it’s their hope that Google Glass will soon become an open platform for all types of content.

For now, they said they hope users will share photos of clothed and/or sexy “figures.” MiKandi, also an online adult software store based in Seattle, insists it can do so in a way that’s tasteful and artful.

Some consider adult content from stores like MiKandi a powerful tool propelling the sale of Android phones.

 

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