Nintendo Swapnote shutdown world-wide

[chartube12]

It's very illegal in the USA. Any depiction of a minor in pornography is illegal in the United States. They have jailed minors for doing this.

That's what I said. Sexting isn't sending nude pics though.

 

[NintendoGuy128]

Well, the last thing I drew on swapnote was a bunch of humanoid penises in the reign of 'Superbad' in 3D, about a day before they removed it, which turned out to be the only penises i've ever drawn on swapnote. So am I the cause of all this?

 

[Ergo]

Flipnote? More like Flipbird!

/zing!

(I'm sure someone got to this awful 'joke' before I did, but I can't be assed to dig through the entire thread.)

 

[Ashtonx]

You must not have any kids. Or if you do, you're probably indifferent to what your kids do. Nintendo is trying to protect the minors from viewing lewd content; how is that inappropriate? If the parents did this, then it would be acceptable, but once a big corporation does it, then people clamor that they're trying to control them. It's kind of like the story of the kid who got shot: he was carrying around a toy machine gun. His father told him not to take it outside, but he didn't listen. So, a police officer saw it and told him to drop it; the kid didn't listen again and now the kid is dead. Are you going to blame the kids' death on the toy gun industry?

When will the parents learn it's their damn responsibility to look after their kids. Maybe we should castrate whole friggin world, cause kids might accidently walk on someone in a bathroom ? Heck maybe we should cut breasts from women, and seal their vaginas ? Oh wait that still is not enough.. i know let's blind and deafen children, or put them in vegetable state im sure that will help then grow properly.

Why the fuck parents expect everyone else than them to look after their children, heck why other people even accept something so idiotic ?

 

[Kazekai]

When will the parents learn it's their damn responsibility to look after their kids. Maybe we should castrate whole friggin world, cause kids might accidently walk on someone in a bathroom ? Heck maybe we should cut breasts from women, and seal their vaginas ? Oh wait that still is not enough.. i know let's blind and deafen children, or put them in vegetable state im sure that will help then grow properly.

Why the fuck parents expect everyone else than them to look after their children, heck why other people even accept something so idiotic ?

Because people like someone to blame when they fuck up, it's human nature.

I am of the belief that you should have a license to be a parent though. If my experiences in public school are any indication, we have enough broken, screwed-up children walking around, and at least half of them come from households where the parents are borderline Amish about raising them.

 

[Ryupower]

Flipnote Studio 3D's Friend Gallery service discontinued
as well

 

[chrisrlink]

why do I have the feeling It's just a cover up cause Smea's new 6.3x exploit requires swapnote? (I mean we don't know but it might

 

[The Minecrafter]

I don't know if this would even be remotely possible, but would it be possible to set up a custom DNS server and one of the homemade streetpass relays to send notes to your friends via streetpass relay? Or somehow make the 3ds think it is on a local network like Hamachi does? Could someone who knows a little bit more about this than me tell me if it would be possible or not?

 

[DJ91990]

The Minecrafter using Hamatchi with an encrypted 3DS Application would be very difficult to set up and may only be available by launching the app with hooks via custom firmware. While Smea has "custom firmware" it's not custom firmware, it's the stock firmware with process hooks, this exploit hasn't even been released yet and I don't think it'll be released in the near future.

This whole incident goes to show you that it just takes a small number of jerk-butts to do something stupid for Nanny-Tendo to go apecrap and pull the pug on an otherwise awesome feature. Swapnote was like Pictochat on crack, having the ability to attach images, and audio was a great idea. I think a better way for Nintendo to address this is to launch an update with Swapnote that would not allow swapnotes with attached images. Or better yet, Nintendo could just grow some BALLS and say "The ESRB did mark Swapnote as E for Everyone, but it also states that ONLINE INTERACTIONS NOT RATED, this means that if you don't want your child seeing PENISES then USE THE *woof*-ING PARENTAL CONTROLS that we INVESTED MONEY INTO PROGRAMMERS to IMPLEMENT INTO THE DAMN SYSTEM AT LAUNCH."

Holy *woof* , this is just as bad as that *woof* that got FAT by EATING SUPER-SIZE FRIES at McDonnalds, sued and managed to get McDonnalds to stop selling Super-Size Fries. Now of somebody like me, that has some restraint, want's to be a pig one day and just get an order of Super-Size Fries and a large coke, I CAN'T!

 

[assassinz]

I doubt Nintendo cancelled SpotPass to protect the kids. I think terrorists were using it to communicate with each other so they couldn't be traced as easily as using emails. Think about it.

 

[Yepi69]

Not because of the kids, because of immature adult men drawing dicks.

 

[pyromaniac123]

The Minecrafter using Hamatchi with an encrypted 3DS Application would be very difficult to set up and may only be available by launching the app with hooks via custom firmware. While Smea has "custom firmware" it's not custom firmware, it's the stock firmware with process hooks, this exploit hasn't even been released yet and I don't think it'll be released in the near future.

This whole incident goes to show you that it just takes a small number of jerk-butts to do something stupid for Nanny-Tendo to go apecrap and pull the pug on an otherwise awesome feature. Swapnote was like Pictochat on crack, having the ability to attach images, and audio was a great idea. I think a better way for Nintendo to address this is to launch an update with Swapnote that would not allow swapnotes with attached images. Or better yet, Nintendo could just grow some BALLS and say "The ESRB did mark Swapnote as E for Everyone, but it also states that ONLINE INTERACTIONS NOT RATED, this means that if you don't want your child seeing PENISES then USE THE *woof*-ING PARENTAL CONTROLS that we INVESTED MONEY INTO PROGRAMMERS to IMPLEMENT INTO THE DAMN SYSTEM AT LAUNCH."

Holy *woof* , this is just as bad as that *woof* that got FAT by EATING SUPER-SIZE FRIES at McDonnalds, sued and managed to get McDonnalds to stop selling Super-Size Fries. Now of somebody like me, that has some restraint, want's to be a pig one day and just get an order of Super-Size Fries and a large coke, I CAN'T!

You know you can say fuck right?

 

[Ashtonx]

Because people like someone to blame when they fuck up, it's human nature.

I am of the belief that you should have a license to be a parent though. If my experiences in public school are any indication, we have enough broken, screwed-up children walking around, and at least half of them come from households where the parents are borderline Amish about raising them.

Unfortunately given the amount of idiots in this world, humanity would die out ;/

 

[RedCoreZero]

The government should shut down the US Postal Service immediately. I mean, I could send pictures of my spanky wanky ringadingaling through their service! Won't somebody think of the children (and not in that way, you perverts)?

We need to spy on people in any/every form possible.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I should've seen this coming, considering how Nintendo are afraid of anything that allows online communication.
Someone mentioned though that if they are trading friend codes on forums then what is stopping them from simply trading "inappropriate material" directly? This is not going to stop them, they're just going to use different means for doing it. This sort of thing is why online communication has a disclaimer that says "we are not responsible for content posted blah blah blah" though I'm not sure if Nintendo had that.

 

[Punkonjunk]

I was hoping when I clicked on this thread that people (and by people, I mean you guys) would support this. It's bad enough that these kinds of drawings are shifting around the internet; now they have to run it in the 3DS system where a lot of young kids use this feature. I don't know about you all, but I don't want my 10 year old seeing penis pictures or big boobs or any shit like that. Just... fuck it. Here's a simple rule: don't exchange inappropriate content unless it's with your immediate friends. And can someone tell me if there's a rule saying that if you're under a certain age, you can't see it? Kind of like when a video gets flagged on Youtube. Someone under 18 cannot view the content. Maybe Nintendo will implement this idea if they haven't already. I can't stop you from uploading this content, so I wish you could show some courtesy.

At least Nintendo gives a shit about their customers, unlike Microsoft. Rampant cheating goes on in Xbox Live and Microsoft doesn't do a damn thing about it. Nintendo wants its customers to have the best gaming experience they can, which is one reason why I love them. They hear about rumors that inappropriate content is being viewed by minors and take action. And severity: do any of you remember when the shoutbox was shut down? Let me toggle your memory: inappropriate content was shared and fights/insults ensued.


NOT funny.


Can't tell if you're joking or not. In any case, nothing is private on the internet. Anyone (and that includes Nintendo) can know about anything at any time.
Key word being should. Pretty flimsy excuse, if you ask me.

This is pretty funny, except for the part where it is serious.

I was ten once, and so were you. My parents were terrible, so I discovered porn thanks to the internet pretty early. It was dialup, so, it was slow, sloooow porn.

Your parents may have had a more hands on, or active role in preventing you from seeing things. or they didn't, I don't care at all for the sake of this point. (or otherwise, even at all!)

The solution to this problem is parenting. Some people are terrible; some folks like to send dick drawings to little kids. You can't say shame on anyone except yourself. If your kid is exposed to my pokemon being named offensive things and then asks you what a "nut felcher" is, well I don't think I did something wrong, I had a giggle naming it and that continues into online play for me. Horray!

Solution? Ninty could make naming private, so only you see your stupid names. (I think this might be the case but I have no idea.... but I haven't been B& so I'm assuming it must be, or ninty has no moderation tools at all for x/y and thought no one would defeat the word filter)
But STILL, that doesn't make sure it won't ever happen.

You know what will, though? Parenting. Watch your kid. Prevent him from accessing the internet at all. He will resent you and discover porn on his own eventually, and draw dicks on stuff.

Kids do that. You can moderate it all you want, and that's fine; it's your right! I am not implying either way is right or wrong because I don't care and can't say how each child everywhere should be raised. But you are responsible for your child.

You can't blame the userbase, and you can't blame nintendo, you can't blame anyone but yourself. If you can't find time to moderate your own child, maybe you aren't doing a very good job as a parent, guy. I know that sounds offensive, but it isn't, really. Parenting is hands on. If you really want to throw the kid to the videogames, power to you, I would have loved parents not being dicks about it, and I think that's pretty much a universal sentiment for children.
If you do though, utilize parental control functions. if they aren't up to spec for preventing your child from accessing the internet, find another device or console you can effectively moderate remotely.

But don't blame us; our bad word filter dodges and dick pictures are definitely our right. Petition nintendo to improve what controls and safety measures are available to you, and take a hands-on role in testing out games that are playable online to ensure they are free of vulgarity, but seriously, don't blame the users. That's extremely irresponsible parenting.

 

[Kazekai]

This is pretty funny, except for the part where it is serious.

I was ten once, and so were you. My parents were terrible, so I discovered porn thanks to the internet pretty early. It was dialup, so, it was slow, sloooow porn.

Your parents may have had a more hands on, or active role in preventing you from seeing things. or they didn't, I don't care at all for the sake of this point. (or otherwise, even at all!)

The solution to this problem is parenting. Some people are terrible; some folks like to send dick drawings to little kids. You can't say shame on anyone except yourself. If your kid is exposed to my pokemon being named offensive things and then asks you what a "nut felcher" is, well I don't think I did something wrong, I had a giggle naming it and that continues into online play for me. Horray!

Solution? Ninty could make naming private, so only you see your stupid names. (I think this might be the case but I have no idea.... but I haven't been B& so I'm assuming it must be, or ninty has no moderation tools at all for x/y and thought no one would defeat the word filter)
But STILL, that doesn't make sure it won't ever happen.

You know what will, though? Parenting. Watch your kid. Prevent him from accessing the internet at all. He will resent you and discover porn on his own eventually, and draw dicks on stuff.

Kids do that. You can moderate it all you want, and that's fine; it's your right! I am not implying either way is right or wrong because I don't care and can't say how each child everywhere should be raised. But you are responsible for your child.

You can't blame the userbase, and you can't blame nintendo, you can't blame anyone but yourself. If you can't find time to moderate your own child, maybe you aren't doing a very good job as a parent, guy. I know that sounds offensive, but it isn't, really. Parenting is hands on. If you really want to throw the kid to the videogames, power to you, I would have loved parents not being dicks about it, and I think that's pretty much a universal sentiment for children.
If you do though, utilize parental control functions. if they aren't up to spec for preventing your child from accessing the internet, find another device or console you can effectively moderate remotely.

But don't blame us; our bad word filter dodges and dick pictures are definitely our right. Petition nintendo to improve what controls and safety measures are available to you, and take a hands-on role in testing out games that are playable online to ensure they are free of vulgarity, but seriously, don't blame the users. That's extremely irresponsible parenting.

TL;DR nobody gives a crap about your kid, that's your job, not ours.

Not because of the kids, because of immature adult men drawing dicks.

I resent that comment. Women can be immature and draw dicks too.

 

[gamefan5]

TL;DR nobody gives a crap about your kid, that's your job, not ours.



I resent that comment. Women can be immature and draw dicks too.

Why would they draw dicks? They should draw their keyhole instead. XD

 

[Kazekai]

Why would they draw dicks? They should draw their keyhole instead. XD

You wish ;3

 

[Gore]

this is outrageous. I used this parody Nikki and change her swapnotes to her sucking dicks, and now they just remove it like that?