Illustrative photo of a party.
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Apple recently removed from its App Store the “Vybe Together” application, designed to facilitate parties banned during the health crisis linked to the coronavirus.
The platform, available on iOS, makes it possible to organize a private meeting and limit access to participants who have previously validated it, explains
The Verge
.
The latter receive the address where the evening takes place a few hours before its launch.
The device obliges guests to provide various information on which the organizer relies to decide whether or not to accept their presence.
A majority of the events offered via the app are in fact illegal in many territories, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Vybe Together account was also banned from TikTok, where its tagline suggested "Be rebels, start your party."
Managers remove content
Those responsible for the platform have also removed a large part of the content they had posted themselves.
Among those pages was a FAQ where Vybe Together reminded that the app was not promoting large-scale parties.
She described them as "very dangerous" and claimed to favor the "compromise" represented by "small gatherings".
Some terrible people built a whole app for finding and promoting COVID-unsafe large, indoor house parties and they're using TikTok to market it to millions of ppl.
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- Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) December 29, 2020
Before its removal by Apple and TikTok, whose accounts had 139 subscribers, the app had been singled out by a reporter for the
New York Times
.
“Horrible people have developed an app to find and promote big, dangerous indoor parties in times of Covid and they are using TikTok to market them,” she denounced on Twitter on Tuesday.
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