The app stores haven't pulled it because they are waiting for this to flow out of the news cycle and reduce the impact of this subset of our culture freaking out at them.
Just because you don't want anything to do with the type of people who would post pictures of you and slander / shit talk you doesn't mean that you should want that being out there to begin with - it's not like that sort of thing hasn't ever been weaponized against someone before.
The worst part is with this app there is a high chance you'd never find out that anything was ever said about you until the snowball is so big that it'll crush any attempt to slow it down.
And yeah, I am trusting certain companies like Apple with some of my data to some extent.
1. Wrt/ dating, the obvious downside is that your potential partner is dissuaded from dating you because of what is said on the platform.
2. I can also see vigilante justice; an extremist reaction to what is said on the platform. Actual violence, or just harassment, online or real life.
3. Or, I can see corporations using these databases on the down low to filter potential employees, similar to how they screen online presence as well.
Of course, all of these are just potential risks, not things that actually happen(ed yet).
They aren't so much picking sides based on their moral compass more picking sides to induce the least harm to bottom line.
This is why Google has a large number of scam dating apps on its app store. The apps I refer to are near/complete scams with 99% fake profiles and 1% lured, like the phishers of Myanmar, only these are Western. They bring big money in.
A while ago (about 3 years), I downloaded a ton of apps made (allegedly) to meet new people in cities you don't know (I was going to spend about 3 weeks at a friend and he would be busy with his job); Meet with Locals types of apps.
I shit you not, the vast majority were filled with scam profiles and a lot of what I assume is escort services/soft prostitution and whatnot.
So, I just deleted them all and just met people the old-fashioned way (which was just fine, not sure technology has a real use case for that); but it was an eye-opener.