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Steve Jobs was extremely puritanical and considered protection from the very existence of porn to be one of the few most notable goals of the app store (and I a
by saurik 6y ago
Steve Jobs was extremely puritanical and considered protection from the very existence of porn to be one of the few most notable goals of the app store (and I am not being sarcastic or hyperbolic: he seriously once used the phrase "freedom from porn").
> Yup, freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash you battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom. The times they are a changin’, and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away. It is.
> When questioned about Apple’s role as moral police in the App Store, Jobs responds that “we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone.” Better, is what he said next: “Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone.”
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https://fortune.com/2010/05/16/steve-jobs-freedom-from-porn/amp/ https://fortune.com/2010/05/16/steve-jobs-freedom-from-porn/...
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/551722/amp https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/551722/amp
https://medium.com/@brianshall/the-greatest-legacy-of-steve-jobs-freedom-from-pornography-378529752e9b https://medium.com/@brianshall/the-greatest-legacy-of-steve-...
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