Forget Julian Assange. The most dangerous man in the world just might be Steve Jobs.
Why? Because knowledge is power, communications is the conduit, and Jobs is trying to position Apple -- via the iPhone, iPad and ITunes marketplace -- to be the premier gatekeeper in what he envisions as a "walled garden" of information technology, one micromanaged by himself (Himself?) and his techno-nerd corporate minions.
AND APPARENTLY, Apple just has declared mainstream, orthodox Christianity offensive and banished it from the iTunes app store. From the Catholic News Agency:
After Apple Inc. removed the Manhattan Declaration application from iTunes over complaints that it had offensive material, signers are urging the corporation to make it available again.CHRISTIANITY has its truth. Apple, and all the mau-mauers yelling "Hate!" in a crowded app store have theirs. And in a world where truth is relative, and often mutually exclusive, the only currency we have left is power and the ability to subjugate the competition.The Manhattan Declaration application for iPhones and iPads was dropped last month when the activist group Change.org gathered 7,000 signatures for a petition claiming that the application promoted “bigotry” and “homophobia.”
The Declaration – a Christian statement drafted in 2009 that supports religious liberty, traditional marriage and right to life issues – has nearly 500,000 supporters.
The iPhone application, which was previously available for purchase on iTunes, was removed around Thanksgiving.
CNA contacted Apple Dec. 2 for the reason behind the pull. Spokesperson Trudy Muller said via phone that the company “removed the Manhattan Declaration app from the App Store because it violates our developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people.”
When asked if Apple plans to release additional statements on the matter, Muller said she had no further comment.
It seems I was talking about that just yesterday.
In this kind of an environment, that makes Jobs a really cool Big Brother. It pains me to say this, but "Give me Windows, or give me death!"
1 comment:
While I sympathize with your hostility to the Jobster in reference to this matter, he's hardly 'Big Brother.' Fortunately, there's a Big, Bad Internet out there, and you don't have to go through Jobs's weenies exclusively to get at it.
So I can't read the Manifesto on my IPhone. So what?
The down side to the scenario is that there's a Big, Bad Internet out there and you don't have to go only to Wikileaks to find out what secrets that weasly little PFC Traitor exposed at our expense.
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