German Publishers Want Censorship Talks With Apple

An anonymous reader writes "The association of German magazine publishers has sent a letter to Steve Jobs (Google translation; German original here) demanding talks about censorship by Apple. The move draws attention to growing concerns about freedom of the press when a single unelected commercial entity has worldwide control over what gets published for the iPhone and, especially, the iPad." While the magazine publishers may rightly be concerned about private control of a platform that many of them are counting on for their long-term salvation, the German state is at the very least ambivalent about the subject of censorship. This is the country that has banned Wikileaks, sought a ban on violent games, and voted to censor child porn (only to have the president kill the ban as unconstituitonal).

Comments

I thought we got rid of them...

[Anonymous Coward]

"This is the country that has banned Wikileaks"
Damn Nazis.

Re:It's Called A Browser

[jjoelc]

Just, for the love of god, don't build it in Flash! ;-)