German Publishers Want Censorship Talks With Apple 197
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from the define-"press" dept.
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).
And you thought Microsoft was evil! (Score:1, Funny)
Apple 2010: censoring apps, hindering competition, trying hard to get a music selling monopoly, delivering substandard quality and then selling it as 'it just works'. The list could go on and on. Please people, realise that Apple is inherently evil and that we can be extremely lucky that Microsoft won the PC market in the 80's. We could have been stuck with a closed pc market where Apple controls what apps you can run, which documents you can download and what music you are allowed to listen to.
And the funny thing? Apple gets away with it due to Steve Jobs' reality distortion field. What a douche.
Boycot Apple!
I thought we got rid of them... (Score:5, Funny)
"This is the country that has banned Wikileaks"
Damn Nazis.
Re:It's Called A Browser (Score:3, Funny)
Just, for the love of god, don't build it in Flash! ;-)
Re:And you thought Microsoft was evil! (Score:1, Funny)
"Apple 2010: censoring apps, hindering competition, trying hard to get a music selling monopoly (..)"
The worst part is, it just works!