Comments on: Apple Stays Classy

By: Ocean_breeze

Ocean_breeze — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:40:50 +0000

Im happy the question was asked! That entertained me for a good hour!

By: Bitterly Books

Bitterly Books — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:50:09 +0000

No.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:06:08 +0000

@Bitterly Books: Aren’t you glad you asked?

By: Sissy Panty Buns

Sissy Panty Buns — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:34:13 +0000

@ Bitterly Brooks: Obviously, but I don't blame you and would not be insulted if you felt compelled to show yours although I'm more of a bottoms in panties person than a breast ogler, don't own an iPhone, and would much prefer that women are the ones doing the looking and sharing of thephotos of my panty-clad bottom on their iPhones. You might have also surmised that I have a touch of O.C.D. with respect to censorship versus free press and like to surf through posts like the one by Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Challenging Media Bias and Censorship Since 1986 I like the idea that so long as it's labeled for what it is, we should be able to share, report and publish our thoughts while there remain audiences who have not been brainwashed into sheeple and can learn. I haven't tried to make the photos of myself modeling ladies full brief panties into a polished YouTube video, but they're released and you are free to try if you want. Getting back to the question of tits on an iPhone: I'm due for a new set of silicone falsies. Maybe I should convert a falsie to hold an iPhone in my bra as all the prudish nonsense gets laughed off the blogoshpere. I could do without having Apple, Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Facebook, or any corporate mogul deciding which swimsuits are okay, which lingerie is okay, and staking out the majority of the internet for use by underage brats. Let the teenies and prudies get their own filtering softwear. I could have done without the disappointment of the farts have been censored out of the Mel Brooks movie "Blazing Saddles" (the gas from eating beans got "edited for content". Then again perhaps it would be those reading this who are laughing. at me not wanting my own pantied bottom censored.

By: Sissy Panty Buns

Sissy Panty Buns — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:28:55 +0000

Sorry for any late night html errors in the previous (Feb 27th) comment. (Oops!).

By: Bitterly Books

Bitterly Books — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:40:59 +0000

@Sissy Panty Buns: I’m confused. Do you want to look at tits on your iPhone, or not?

By: Sissy Panty Buns

Sissy Panty Buns — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:27:45 +0000

The far right wing often uses the mantra of "free market capitalism" to justify a slew of anti-competitive positions. Some initial research seems to indicate something going on which, semantics aside, was a lot closed to censorship than it was to showing class. These days those who censor prefer to use phrases like "edited for content". A couple of blogs with a different perspective were one over at the Cult of Mac blog entitled: Too Hot for iPhone: Apple's Puritanicle Sex Crusade Bans Swimwear Retailer's App. A blog post at the National Coalition against censorship opined that: "We can now add swimwear catalogs to the list of controversial iPhone apps, which already includes a Kama Sutra ebook, NIN, and the dictionary.After the FCC relaxed the rules regarding media consolidation the decreasing number of people who run the corporations who make, own, or control the digital spectrum, the airwaves, the media, and the devices have increasingly controlled what gets seen and heard. In an era where anti-trust laws have become a joke, we should not blithely forgo fundamental liberties based on the arbitrary whims of a few to the detriment of minorities. The digital spectrum is leased from the people (the real people, not prosecutors) . I recognize, of course, that unenlightened sexist prurience has been used to promote sales within the bath-water of patriarchy, but it has been rumored that Apple has had second thoughts about throwing out innocent babies with that bath-water.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:17:22 +0000

@ImtheMarigold: Also, it’s not actually censorship unless it’s the government doing it. In a free market economy, Apple is free to do pretty much whatever they want with regards to their own product. That’s the retort I usually use for comments like that.

By: Ocean_breeze

Ocean_breeze — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:58:42 +0000

@baraqiel

Oh I agree fully. Apple is free to do as they wish as much as we all are. But it was nice that they listened when some people had comments to give them. Most often a big company won’t (unless they have lawsuits coming).

By: baraqiel

baraqiel — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:32:57 +0000

Oh, and @ocean_breeze — I agree with you. My personal opinion is that the apps are skeezy but the way to solve that is by social censure of people who make/buy them, not by Apple being authoritarian. But that doesn’t change the fact that they have a right to be as authoritarian as they damn please about their own store.