Apple Blocks Cartoonist From App Store

ink writes "Here is another troubling anecdote on the iWeb front: 'This week cartoonist Mark Fiore made Internet and journalism history as the first online-only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. Fiore took home the editorial cartooning prize for animations he created for SFGate, the website for the San Francisco Chronicle... But there's just one problem. In December, Apple rejected his iPhone app, NewsToons, because, as Apple put it, his satire "ridicules public figures," a violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, which bars any apps whose content in "Apple's reasonable judgement may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory."' Whether or not you agree with Fiore's political sentiments, I believe we can all agree that the censorship of his work should be denigrated."

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Your belief is incorrect.

[mea37]

"Whether or not you agree with Fiore's political sentiments, I believe we can all agree that the censorship of his work should be denigrated"

Well, don't feel bad; lots of people believe things that are untrue.

I have no problem with Apple deciding what their product does. What a lot of people can't seem to get their brains around is: the iPod (and iPhone, and now iPad) is not a general-purpose computer.

Also, I do not regard this as censorship and wish people would quit abusing that term to the point that it has no meaning.