It's Time to Declare War Against Apple's Censorship - Apple - Gizmodo - 2 views
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The App Store censorship horse may have been beaten to death, but mainstream German media—whose iPhone applications have been censored by Apple because of its content—are not surrendering. I'm glad. In fact, I hope they win this war.
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The censorship problem is not only about the 5,000 titillating apps that fell down in flames after Apple's latest puritanic raid
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Apple took down Stern's iPhone app without notice. Stern—a very large weekly news magazine—published a gallery of erotic photos as part of its editorial content.
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They learnt their lesson, since they haven't published any other material that may offend Apple's "moral police"
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And it doesn't have to be about Apple or tits. There are plenty of applications that have been deemed blasphemous or offensive by Apple, and banned from publication. Would publications showing a caricature of Prophet Mohamed be taken down as well? That would get Phil Schiller plenty of complaint letters.