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Censorship: iPorn you porn we all mourn for phone porn
Posted by: MikeZilla on Apr 29, 2010
Well not really. While wandering around the internet I came upon an article about porn on the iPhone. So in an attempt to make the iPhone more family friendly, Steve Jobs and his Apple minions are cracking down on iPhone porn. It seems that the iPhone will not run any apps deemed to be pornographic.
"Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone," Jobs said, referring to the adults-only app store available for the Google platform that powers the Android.
Now I don’t really care one way or another about the availability, or lack thereof, of Porn on the iPhone. The iPhone is a toy for those more worried about what the Joneses think than about the tech in their hi-tech devices. However who the hell do Apple think they are deciding essentially what content they’ll allow on their devices. Build in restrictions enforce some form of parental guidance system but to start banning content due to a moral Judgement is Big Brotherish in the the extreme. What next? Let’s allow Bible apps on the iPhone but no versions of the Torah or Quran?
Please mom can you pass the charger
Steve Jobs and the thought police at apple seem to think they are the saviours of the modern family. Upstanding citizens keeping the scourge of immorality at bay one scantily clad woman at a time. Steve Jobs is quoted as saying his intention is to keep the iPhone family friendly… What a load of bollocks. While not Apple’s fault the Cellular telephone has been hacking at the roots of the family unit for years. Year by broadening the communication gap between generations and stealing our kids away into a virtual living room where they sit and “socialise” with their friends constantly, hardly finding the time to lift there heads to acknowledge the outside world.
We Don't need no Education
The parents are to blame, the same parents putting pressure on Apple and other handset manufacturers to remove access to pornographic content from their devices. They have done such a piss poor job raising there kids that the only way to protect them is to deny them access to the forbidden fruit. Why the hell aren’t they policing what their kids are watching?
Censorship is the lazy parents approach to child rearing. It reduces the need for actual social interaction with children.
So to all the Apple devotees and yes, I do love the MacBook too, it’s time that consumers become activists. With more and more huge corporate machines rising up, the pressure is constantly increasing on us to vote with our wallets. When a manufacturer says if you want freedom of expression, buy an android phone, then go buy an android phone. Or else we’re enabling corporate mind control of the values and morals of our kids.
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