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Apple Censors Consumer Report iPhone4 Discussions

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the behold-the-power-of-steve dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple has done it again. All threads about Consumer Report's iPhone4 non-recommendation are removed or deleted. If it happened once, maybe you'd say it was a glitch. But what if it happened twice? Three times? Four times, five, six?"

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  1. Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it happened once, maybe you'd say it was a glitch. But what if it happened twice? Three times? Four times, five, six?

    Keep it up until your 32,768th post when they'll regret using a signed short int for the NUM_POSTS_CENSORED value in your forum profile.

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    1. Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by Haffner · · Score: 5, Funny

      Am I the only one who immediately thought of the Season 5 finale of The Office when Dwight asks "How many people need to get hurt before we learn a lesson?" (or something) "One? Two? Three?" "Dwight..." "No, let me finish. Four? Five? Six?"

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    2. Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by localman57 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm pretty sure there is a clause allowing them to "moderate" according to whatever values they want.

      So it's like 4chan then?

    3. Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by A.+B3ttik · · Score: 2, Funny

      Plenty of posts on the issue are still up. My guess is that they simply removed a bunch of redundant or obscene threads, which I see nothing wrong with.

    4. Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, Apple users are way less mature.

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    5. Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by skelterjohn · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's because the government had it taken out.

    6. Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by commodore64_love · · Score: 2, Funny

      >>>I had a very tasty pig murdered for my Cuban sandwich just yesterday. Strange, but I don't feel guilty about it.

      I executed some wheat, sugar cane, and coconuts, and baked their carcasses into a donut. I don't feel guilty about murdering these things either. It's either eat or die.

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    7. Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by BrokenHalo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is a Cuban pig as good as a Cuban cigar?

      It might be, but it's too hard to light...

    8. Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by RedSteve · · Score: 2, Funny

      If Apple really can't stand people poking fun at them when they screw up, perhaps they should stop being so fucking secretive and start doing some proper testing in the real world.

      They were gonna do that, but unfortunately the guy who was supposed to carry out those tests lost his iPhone in a bar...

  2. Freedom from pron, criticism, open debate by ciaran_o_riordan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeh, when Jobs said his control over every Apple-user's computing was about "freedom from porn", we could have guessed that "porn" was just being dragged up as a convenient excuse.

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    1. Re:Freedom from pron, criticism, open debate by Reilaos · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, now this is freedom from having complications in your decision to by the revolutionary new iPhone!

  3. It's logical by Errol+backfiring · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, that is what you do with bad apples, isn't it?

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    1. Re:It's logical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, that is what you do with bad apples, isn't it?

      Bad apples, broken windows or dead penguins, ... I don't care which it is, I chuck them all into the bin.

  4. Get over it and by a bumper you cry babies! by LWATCDR · · Score: 5, Funny

    Really you just paid $299 for your phone. You pay goodness knows how much a month for your 2 GB capped data plan. Just suck it up and buy the $30 bumper! what is the big deal!
    (This message was sent from my Android phone on the Sprint network).

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    1. Re:Get over it and by a bumper you cry babies! by biryokumaru · · Score: 3, Funny

      "You just paid 40 grand for a new car that was supposed to run great. So what if the engine fell out? Stop whining already and drop that measly 5k to put a new one in it."

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    2. Re:Get over it and by a bumper you cry babies! by D+Ninja · · Score: 1, Funny

      Methinks your /sarcasm sensor needs recalibrated.

      Or, in Slashdot terms...

      WOOSH!

  5. Re:To think that this is the company..... by HerculesMO · · Score: 5, Funny

    Touche.

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  6. No... by SmurfButcher+Bob · · Score: 3, Funny

    No... they're posting it wrong.

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  7. Look it up by ThrowAwaySociety · · Score: 1, Funny

    If someone says something, and you remove it, that's censorship.

    No, it's not.

    Censorship is:

    : to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable ; also : to suppress or delete as objectionable

    There are plenty of discussions about this issue on the Apple support boards which are not being removed.

    The multiple posts about an external magazine review have been removed because discussing magazine articles is offtopic for a tech support board, just as discussing the latest Huffington Post article on Angelina Jolie is offtopic.

    1. Re:Look it up by Syberz · · Score: 3, Funny

      a magazine article about the iPhone is off-topic in a tech support board dedicated to the iPhone?

      Here's probably what happened:

      iPhone customer: Yeah, reception sucks on my new iPhone 4.
      AppleGeek: No it doesn't, I bet you're holding it with your hands? You're doing it wrong.
      iPhone customer: Uh, there's a bunch of threads on the subject, many of us are having the same issue.
      AppleGeek: They're doing it wrong too.
      iPhone customer: There's even an article in Consumer Report that mentions it! Here's the link -->
      AppleGeek: *pulls out the ban-hammer*
      iPhone customer, having a half-caf decaf soy mocha latte with a lemon twaist at Le Expensive Coffee: Where'd my thread go?

      *Bonus points to whoever gets the "lemon twaist" reference.

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  8. Re:Power Play by Consumers Union by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 4, Funny

    This seems like a power play to provide more relevance to Consumer's Union than a specific attack on Apple. I am by no means an Apple fan but this issue seems potentially overstated.

    Absolutely overstated! I mean, who really wants their phone to actually BEHAVE as a phone! Insanity, I tell you, insanity!

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  9. Re:It's a support forum... by dhermann · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I'm sorry, sir, but you have violated the Terms of Service of this call by referring to an external site. I will have to censor you for the remainder of our conversation. Is there anything else I can assist you with today? ...Sir, by your silence I must conclude that I have resolved the issue. I went ahead and filled out a comment about how happy you are with our product on the Consumer Reports website. Thank you, and please remember that the new season of Glee is available on the iStore for $31.99."

  10. Re:New Logo Please by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Found it

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  11. Re:To think that this is the company..... by cc1984_ · · Score: 3, Funny

    You spelt touchy wrong

  12. Re:It is their site. by GrumblyStuff · · Score: 2, Funny

    I dunno. Ballmer might whip out his Zune and try to squirt the tykes.

  13. Re:It is their site. by men0s · · Score: 3, Funny

    Although, I would make sure all the chairs are properly secured before-hand..

  14. Holy crap! by psydeshow · · Score: 3, Funny

    The real news here is that they actually paid attention to something that was said in their support forums. :-p

  15. Re:It is their site. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You don't like your kids much, do you?