should Apple ban this?
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- lowimpakt
"Somewhere, James Joyce must be laughing at Steve Jobs.
As everyone who took a modern lit class in college knows, Ulysses was banned from publication in the United States because of a scene in which Leopold Bloom masturbates on a beach while fireworks burst nearby. The courts eventually decided the episode wasn’t obscene because it didn’t promote lust.
History is repeating itself again, this time in Apple’s (AAPL) App Store. Sarah Weinman at the Daily Finance says that a Webcomic adaptation of the book, Rob Berry and Josh Levitas' Ulysses Seen, has been banned from iPads and iPhones because of cartoon nudity. Here is a picture of an offending panel (courtesy of Robot 6), in which stately, plump Buck Mulligan dives nude into the sea."
- Continuity0
Oh noes. An illustrated penis that's doing nothing other than ... well, being a penis and getting wet in the sea.
Maybe the people who make these decisions don't have penises. Or breasts. And they have truly no idea how they arrived in this world.
- georgesIII0
me no see no masterbation?
- flashbender0
I see a cartton weiner though and that makes me uncomfortable. IT should be banned.
- for real?lowimpakt
- totally dude. Weiners are scary thingsflashbender
- aanderton0
This doesn't really come as a surprise. But then if they started showing stuff like this in kids cartoons there'd be complaints. So could you not just say its apple covering their own back?
- TheBlueOne0
I feel protected from porn.
- TheBlueOne0
- funny green man.
OMG PENIS!!! RUN!!pango - errr...BLUE man.necromation
- Yeah, check your monitor calibration there pango.ETM
- let me break it, "funny green man." = the people around commenting >> OMG PENIS RUN!!! ahahahhageorgesIII
- funny green man.
- ORAZAL0
- KIRIKUUUU!!georgesIII
- my nephew loves that cartoongeorgesIII
- rated "mature audience" in the USAORAZAL
- i have this movie :)scarabin
- ukit0
So where do you draw the line? I mean sure, the small, limp penis in the example above looks harmless enough. But what some of that Anime tentacle sex shit or a bitch getting fucked by a demon or something? It's a slippery slope.
- just use common senseORAZAL
- common sense has no place in businessflashbender
- < quote of the dayORAZAL
- censorship is also a slippery slopepizzafire
- it's really not that slippery.LOKi
- PIZZA0
why does a comic need to be an app?
- toe_knee0
Cyanide & Happiness made the app store
- orrinward0
This is silly! don't understand why they can't just have age verification for adult material. This doesn't even qualify as that really.
Next thing you know they'll be blocking 'Jew Hunter' games and the American History X Kurb Kicker... Political Correctness gone mad!
- Hombre_Lobo0
Thats such bs, they are trying to be so righteous, but at the expensive of censorship for carton nakedness...i cant live in a world without cartoon nakedness...goodbye QBN.
- dont let the door hit you in the vagina on the way out.Hombre_Lobo
- whatsup0
- My god, Bart has a penis? Who knew!Continuity
- glad you defined motherCockDiesel
- HUNG LIKE A HORSEutopian
- scrap_paper0
The fact that apple is censoring web content on their devices is terrible and terrifying. Who the hell are they to decide what I view and don't view on the device that I bought? This behaviour is the biggest reason that I'm starting to think about ditching my iphone for another smart device even though I love it.
- Centigrade0
What about anatomy/science apps? Do they get banned?
- scrap_paper0
And who decides what is deemed obscene? Are pictures of blood and death and decay obscene? This moral highgroud attitude is dangerous. Don't be sheep and over look this.
Get your LIsteners License out folks. The apple police are coming to make sure you are allowed to review content.
- PIZZA0
"The fact that apple is censoring web content on their devices is terrible and terrifying."
They're not censoring web content, only things being sold in their store you know like how there isn't porn for sale in Walmart.
You can view whatever you want in the web browser, and even install 2girls1cup on your home screen if you really want.
- scarabin0
*faaaaap fap fap fap fap*