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Racy Danish Tabloid May Sue Apple For App Rejection

Posted by timothy on from the bikinis-verboten dept.

the_arrow writes "In Denmark the tabloid newspaper Ekstra Bladet usually have scantily clad ladies on page 9. When making an iPad application, Apple of course rejected it because of that. However, Ekstra Bladet is not happy with that, and many sites report that Ekstra Bladet is thinking about taking Apple to European court for 'unfair censorship and anti-competitive behaviour.'"

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  1. Re:Suing for what exactly? by Carewolf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are you familiar with the legislation regarding censorship in Denmark? It may be like "sexual assault" in Sweden.

    You are not completely off. We just don't make it into laws in Denmark, but when US TV shows started being shown on Danish TV, worried parents called in and complained because of the beeps over offensive words. They argued that censorship is wrong and harmfull to children.

    Then again. The racist party recently suggested in parliament that we should add topless girls to the citizenship test, apparently thinking that would scare off muslims.