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teasasue · #**203** 06-15-2010, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by BrotherMan

It took me a bit to figure out what made me angry on this one. At first I was just generic-angry that art is being censored. Then I thought, "you know, it is Apple's App store, they can be judicious about what they do and do not sell there." But then I got angry again because with the iPhone and the iPad you have no choice where you buy your Apps. And additionally, Apple isn't across the board with their no-nudes policy (or whatever the policy actually is) because boobs are available from a Playboy app, in addition to the last example in the quoted portion of this article So now I'm all "yeah, fuck you Apple" again.

GizmodoThe Latest Examples of Apple's Editorial Censorship

In 1933, a judge ruled that James Joyce's Ulysses wasn't obscene. In 2010, Apple has demanded editorial changes to a Ulysses graphic novel. And another based on The Importance of Being Earnest. Here are their—slightly NSFW—reasons.

In the case of Ulysses Seen, Apple demanded the removal of some (non-pornographic) nudity. And although illustrator Robert Berry offered several alternatives, such as pixelating the breasts or covering them with fig leaves, the only solution Apple deemed appropriate was the one seen above. Which basically abandons all of the original panel, sketched here:

Joyce fans will note the timing: we're two days from Bloomsday, a celebration of all things Ulysses.

In the case of a graphic novel of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, the objectionable nature of the content appears to be simply that two men were kissing. Meaning that this:

Can only be downloaded like this:

That's after you've already told Apple that you're 17 or older. Blacking out seven consecutive panels of a graphic novel makes that novel basically unreadable. And before you say that it's because of the partial nudity, here's a panel from Kick-Ass of a heterosexual couple that Apple didn't censor:

I can understand why you would be upset, I dont understand why 1 is ok to have and veiw but not the other.