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Apple Censors Ulysses App In Time For Bloomsday
Miracle Jones writes "Apple has censored a 'Ulysses' comic book app — just in time for 'Bloomsday' — because of a picture of Buck Mulligan's stately, plump cartoon penis. Not since Amazon removed digital copies of '1984' from people's Kindles while they slept has there been such a hilarious episode in the ongoing slapstick farce 'Let's See What Happens When Corporations Become Publishers.'"
I never thought I'd have to see a store in the US that wasn't free to make its own choices about what it wants to sell! I's like living in Gaza!
Is comparing the inability to buy an app with a carton penis in a private store where the owner of said store doesn't want to sell such things with living in Gaza the new Godwin?
I'm sure your hardship is just the same as some family in Gaza being shelled with white phosphorous while their perfectly legal and legitimate house is bulldozed to make way for new, illegal construction.
Only someone who has never EVER been inside a publisher would call them a corporation. Maybe something like Harlequin comes close but the more "serious" ones have profits as something that happens sometimes, maybe but what it is, they don't know.
It is most certainly never a "fleece them for every penny" operation like an Apple. No book publisher would use Foxconn because penny-saving is not what they do. Profit for a book publisher is at most something to fund the next costly failure with. A lot of them also feel they got a public duty and that rarely is the one that tells them to do absolutely nothing that might offend anyone.
It is something very different from a mega billion dollar company like Apple to do publishing from some proper book publisher where even the account wears open toed sandals. It is the difference between the accounts running the books and them running the company.
The proof? Far fewer problems with book censorship. Just count the number of books published with naked boobies involved vs iPhone apps with the same.
Boobies are a good indicator of censorship. And yes, censoring yourself is censorship.
We would do well to not have our culture controlled by gigant companies only intrested in the bottom line.
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