What
a great company Apple is, in more ways
than one. In this case, it is being
against pornography and being pro-family.
You don't get that with many big companies
today. All they care about is money.
What a great guy Steve Jobs is. Trailblazing
the digital world. And now even considering
how technological advances can lead
to a porn-free world, going totally
against the grain. During these critical
times when the prince of the air(waves)
seems to have mastered the use of the
Internet for filth and evil, there are
still good men out there who stand in
the gap.
In Eden the apple got a bad reputation.
With Steve Jobs the Apple is making
a great positive impression.
Steve
Jobs Says iPad Revolution Means ‘Freedom
from Porn’
By
Peter J. Smith
CUPERTINO,
California, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers,
says his company will not be a party
to the pornography industry and hopes
that the iPad and iPhone revolution
will help lead to a porn-free world.
Jobs
reiterated his position in a heated
e-mail exchange
with Ryan Tate, a writer for Gawker.com,
which follows news and gossip in Silicon
Valley and elsewhere. Tate, who admitted
that he was home alone and slightly
inebriated at the time, took issue with
a television ad calling the iPad a “revolution”
and fired off an e-mail to Jobs.
“If
Dylan [American songwriter Bob Dylan
is one of Jobs’ favorite musicians]
was 20 today, how would he feel about
your company? Would he think the iPad
had the faintest thing to do with ‘revolution?’
Revolutions are about freedom,”
Tate wrote, not expecting a response
from Jobs.
However,
Jobs did respond to Tate, triggering
an e-mail duel. “Yep, freedom
from programs that steal your private
data. Freedom from programs that trash
your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep,
freedom,” responded Jobs. “The
times they are a changin’, and
some traditional PC folks feel like
their world is slipping away. It is.”
However, Tate accused Jobs of "imposing"
his "morality" by having Apple
forbid pornographic applications for
iPad. “I don’t want ‘freedom
from porn.’ Porn is just fine!
And I think my wife would agree,”
fired back Tate - who later said he
regretted mentioning his wife.
Jobs
shot back, “You might care more
about porn when you have kids.”
Apple’s
CEO pointed out that competitor Microsoft
has the right to make whatever rules
it wants on its platforms; developers
who do not comply simply go elsewhere,
and can do the same with Apple.
“We’re
just doing what we can to try and make
(and preserve) the user experience we
envision,” said Jobs. “You
can disagree with us, but our motives
are pure.”
In
an exchange
with customer Matthew Browning posted
by Techcrunch.com
in April, Jobs had defended Apple’s
crusade to keep pornography off its
products.
“We
do believe we have a moral responsibility
to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who
want porn can buy [an] Android phone,”
he said, referring to the product of
competitor Google, which has permitted
a pornography store app for its smartphone.
Apple’s
iPad and iPhone do not offer complete
freedom from pornography - objectionable
material can still be accessed via the
Internet, and may be attainable through
iTunes - but most pornographic clips
cannot, since they require Adobe Flash
products, which Apple refuses to support
for a variety of reasons.
“Clearly
opposed to pornography, Jobs surely
realizes he can’t make it go away
completely,” commented
Sam Diaz, senior editor of ZDNET, last
month. “But he doesn’t have
to contribute to the spreading of it
- especially in a place where children
often shop using a technology that many
parents still don’t understand
well enough to police.”
Apple
requires application designers to adhere
to a company policy that could be described
as “pro-family:” The iPhone
Developer Program License Agreement
(sec 3.3.17) states that “applications
may be rejected if they contain content
or materials of any kind (text, graphics,
images, photographs, sounds, etc.) that
in Apple’s reasonable judgment
may be considered obscene, pornographic,
or defamatory.”
Gawker
reported that Apple twice rejected the
app "Gay New York: 101 Can't-Miss
Places" because of its inclusion
of obscene and pornographic imagery.
Apple
began a major crackdown on app designers
in February, purging objectionable apps
that may have fallen through the cracks.
"For
to me to live is Christ, and to die
is gain." (Phil 1:21)