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Last time I checked porn was legal in the US. Who made Apple the arbitrator of what we can and can not do? Yes, I know, private cooperation can decide what the
by sschueller 2y ago
Last time I checked porn was legal in the US. Who made Apple the arbitrator of what we can and can not do?
Yes, I know, private cooperation can decide what they want to do but once you get to a point of monopoly these rules should change.
Visa/Master card have the same issue.
- lm28469 2y agoYeah but remember kids "regulations = evil". If apple was forced to allow porn what's next? We'd probably end up in a communist dictatorship or something equally terrible
- pentel-0_5 2y ago[flagged]
- pentel-0_5 2y agoI don't get why they don't just slap an adult age (varies by jurisdiction) and sensitive content gates on it and be done with it. Some people who are of legal age want sensitive content apps and web stuff and others don't want to see any of it. Let users decide. Default it to sensitive content off. Problem solved. We can all go home now. :)
- ericmay 2y agoWhy doesn’t Wal-Mart sell porn? Why do they get to be the arbiter of what I can and can’t do?
- asadotzler 2y agoIn this case, it's Walmart telling the shop down the street they shouldn't be allowed to sell porn because someone might read it while wearing a Walmart t-shirt.
- ericmay 2y agoWell it’s more like a vendor comes in and sets up shop in Wal-Mart to sell products because the government mandates it, and now that vendor is selling porn.
- fragmede 2y agoYou buy the phone from Apple. Ostensibly this means you own it. Why then is it them setting up shop in Walmart, and not setting up shop in the mall you own and bought?
- ericmay 2y agoYep, and you can do anything you want to it! That doesn't mean that Apple or Nintendo or Steam has to do things that support your specific use case. Of course governments can regulate things, but that applies to any industry or product. > Malls The mall analogy doesn't work well because Apple isn't a mall in this case but more like a Wal-Mart. They aim to own the entire experience including the distribution of applications on the device. In the mall analogy Apple would own the mall and then each store could be viewed as an app that they allow in the mall. Malls also limit what stores/apps can operate in them and have lots of rules. Where I live one of our more prominent malls requires tenants who are renting space at the mall to completely refresh the space or vacate after a certain number of years. Malls can arbitrarily raise rent and operating fees on the various shops within them too.
- fragmede 2y agoThe owner of the mall/phone gets to choose the stores in it. So Apple gets to have a store, and they get to choose not to sell porn apps, but there's the European store in the mall, and it seems they're a bit different and they choose to sell porn apps.
- ericmay 2y agoSure you own an iPhone and you can choose to do whatever you want to it. That doesn't mean Apple has to support it outside of whatever the government mandates. I'm not following your point now on the analogy. I thought we were talking about Apple and not individuals?
- wpm 2y agoWalmart isn’t the only store.
- ericmay 2y agoIs the iPhone the only mobile phone?
- ebri 2y agoYes it pretty much is. This is why your comparison doesn’t work that well. Also in a physical store you can’t shield the rest of the customers from the content some want but others don’t. So your companies no sense really.
- ericmay 2y ago> Also in a physical store you can’t shield the rest of the customers from the content some want but others don’t. So your companies no sense really. Sure you can. In Ohio the state controls liquor distribution so if you want to buy liquor at a grocery store you have to go into a separate area. Rated M games (when I was growing up at least) were locked in special cases. Sometimes truck stop stations sell pornography and it's behind the counter with a cover on it. > Yes it pretty much is. It's not.