iSay What uSee 2
The ACLU does not think much of Apple’s iJunk iNanny.
A nugget; much more at the link:
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An app providing a stream of basic information about the conduct of a policy that is the subject of current public debate would seem as American as, uh, apple pie.
Of course, Apple is a private company not covered by the First Amendment, and the App Store is not a public forum. In fact, Apple is arguably like the New York Times, with a right to pick and choose what it “publishes.”
But aside from what Apple has the right to do, you have to wonder how many of its customers say to themselves, “wow, I got a new iPhone, oh boy, now I can access all the information in the world that Apple allows to filter into my new device because nobody finds it objectionable!”
September 6, 2012 at 5:43 pm
Great hed. Apple is untrustworthy and the bigger and more wealthy and powerful it is the less so. Wasn’t it just a couple months ago it wouldn’t sell to an Iranian-American girl, copping some plea about violating the ITAR and ban on sale high power computing to Iran?
September 6, 2012 at 9:58 pm
Yes, it was, twice in fact, but I think that was more likely the iNdividual iGeniuses at the iJunk stores, rather than the iBorg.
I know I posted about it at the time, because I loves me them iScrewups, when the iDentity accidentally gets revealed.
The iRony, of course, is that the iRanian-Americans that were refused to purchase iJunk are likely here because they fled the mullahs after the revolution.