LISTEN: Is Apple Playing Big Brother With Its iPhone Apps?
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First, they delayed the release of Howard Dean’s iPhone app. Then, they rejected an app created by a private citizen that advocated a single-payer health care system.
Does Apple really get to decide what’s best for us? When regulating potentially sensitive content, how far is too far? Have they overstepped their boundaries?
Jerome Armstrong, founder of MyDD.com and co-author of Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, raises the possibility that Apple’s iPhone App Store may be engaging in some Big Brother-style censorship in this interview with Karen Finney for Air America Radio.
Here’s a choice quote from Jerome Armstrong:
Well, it’s hard to know what Apple is thinking. You know, the process we went through with putting Howard Dean’s app out there regularly takes about two weeks, and it was prolonged to over two months before it was finally approved. And they never gave us any indication as to why the holdup or anything else. And what it seems like Apple’s decided is that they’ll go ahead and allow political applications that are done by politicians, but if you’re an ordinary individual and you want to make a political app, no, they won’t approve it.
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