Apple's iPhone Channels the Prudes -- "Pick a Little, Talk a Little!"

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
Date: May 23, 2009 2:50:17 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Apple's iPhone Channels the Prudes -- "Pick a Little, Talk a  
Little!"



   Apple's iPhone Channels the Prudes -- "Pick a Little, Talk a  
Little!"

               http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000572.html


Greetings.  Ya' know the musical "The Music Man" -- and the
busybody ladies group all flustered about the "dirty books"
in the River City library of the early 20th century?
"Chaucer ... Rabelais ... Baaaalzac!"
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbhnRuJBHLs )

Well, Apple's continuing game of iPhone censorship
( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000552.html ) is still in
high gear -- with hilariously inane results.

It appears that Apple has rejected the "Eucalyptus" ebook reader
iPhone app, apparently because it would simplify -- via Project
Gutenberg -- iPhone users' access to Victorian-era books of the sort
that so upset the River City ladies!
( http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/22/apple-says-no-projec.html )

The contrasts are really quite stark.  Google's Book Search and
Android phone projects are facilitating open access potentially to the
sum total of published human knowledge, without playing content nanny.
Meanwhile, Apple is not only clinging to laughable 19th century
concepts of "filth" in classic literature, but imposing their
nonsensical censorship gobbledygook on their entire iPhone customer
base.

The bozos have taken over the iPhone bus.

"Cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep,
Cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep,
Cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep,
Pick a little, talk a little, Cheep!"

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren () vortex com
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
  - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, NNSquad
  - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org
Founder, GCTIP - Global Coalition
  for Transparent Internet Performance - http://www.gctip.org
Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein




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