Go, Read: Censorship Of Underground Comics App For iPhone Discussed By App Creator At Imprint

I'm just now catching up to this one, and if you haven't read it already here's the short interview by Michael Dooley talking to app creator Kim Munson. Basically what seems to have happened is that an app designed to bring a selection of underground comics art to digital device users was approved for the iPad with a bunch of warnings but had to have multiple images censored in order to be approved for iPhone. I don't really see this as the same thing as escorting a publicity-hungry actress from the grounds for wearing a revealing costume except in the broadest of terms. What's scary is that Apple is obviously a dominant market force and if their corner of this market comes with obvious, content-altering restrictions, then almost nothing has changed in the last 25 years except the person with the spray paint can is drawing a private rather than a public salary. It's hard for me to believe this can even be an issue given what's out there on the Internet and available to everyone with three clicks of a mouse.
 
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