This rule excludes a slew of apps from the app store – not just satire but definitely also satire (satire is usually aimed at public figures and as a consequence includes representations of them, getting consent for those representations would defeat the whole purpose of satire). I don’t see how a rule that indirectly excludes satire is any better than a rule that directly excludes it.
Free speech doesn’t seem to be very important for Apple and that makes me pretty sick. iPads are supposed to be the places where we read our newspapers tomorrow, we as a society should only allow that if we also force Apple to put everything in the App store which is covered by free speech. (I do believe that free speech should limit the rules a private company is allowed to make. ISPs, for example, shouldn’t be allowed to filter out whatever they want.)
Free speech doesn’t seem to be very important for Apple
Let me know when they stop supporting the single most democratized mass communications medium the world has ever known.
we as a society should only allow that if we also force Apple to put everything in the App store which is covered by free speech.
You may not like what Apple chooses to sell, but if you want to replace their freedom to do so with the government, I don't really think you've thought that through.
ISPs, for example, shouldn’t be allowed to filter out whatever they want.
Making sure that there is plurality in the media is a task of the state. That’s my opinion, alright. I have thought that through. (That first sentence is also a true statement in at least some countries.)
Making sure that there is plurality in the media is a task of the state.
You've left a massive gap between ensuring it can exist and the forcing of retailers to stock it. That is something I'd like you to explain more clearly. Would you be willing to throw me in jail if I owned a book store but refused to stock a certain book or class of books?
Free speech doesn’t seem to be very important for Apple and that makes me pretty sick. iPads are supposed to be the places where we read our newspapers tomorrow, we as a society should only allow that if we also force Apple to put everything in the App store which is covered by free speech. (I do believe that free speech should limit the rules a private company is allowed to make. ISPs, for example, shouldn’t be allowed to filter out whatever they want.)