What Worries Most

The problem of censorship is not about tits or pink, it is about freedom to choose whether you want to see it OR not. That is what’s important.  Nowadays Apple has no strict rules that face the moral issue question which leaves lots of room for further maneuver and  pretexts for further abolishing.  It seems that Apple perceives the whole world content as a newspaper  for its boss and they have the ability to cut out anything he might not like. Certainly Apple is a corporation which means it can do whatever it wants in its store. At least the majority of people who support Apple’s policy state that. But there appear at least 2 objections of the general kind. First of all, nowadays iPhone-iPod-iPad triumvirate seems to be the largest mobile application platform in the world. And couldn’t this be considered an abuse of quasi-monopoly power? The next thought is would you be surprised if a TV you bought commenced to censor the programs, erasing the content that its manufacturer, let’s say Samsung or Sony, deems as abusive or offensive. You would be surprised, wouldn’t you? You paid money for it and quite a lot to tell the truth: it’s yours. You did not lend it from the corporation after all. Why then does it keep the habit of telling you what to watch?

Another thing is that any censorship that comes from an interested party is a bit dubious. What’s the reason for it? Do you believe in philanthropy? I don’t. Apple has not proved very philanthropic, as every year special reports concerning the conditions of working at Apple’s partners manufacturing facilities are submitted. Knowing that some of the factories resemble a sweat-shop to the utmost degree Apple has not done anything  to break the relations or change the situation. Money concerns always prevail and now millions of people should believe in a Good Big Brother that cares for them and their children? It seems ridiculous.

It’s quite easy to slip from the censorship of tits and pink and embrace the content censorship and in fact Apple has already done it banning the app of Mark Fiore, winner of the 2010 prize for editorial cartooning. His app was excluded from the App Store for ridiculing public figures. What will be next? Something paramount to the Great Chinese Wall that is filtrating the info consumed by more than a milliard people? So maybe political figures shouldn’t be ridiculed or contradicted, war actions pictures should be pixilated in order to protect children and nervous teenagers from violence, classical prose should be checked for immoral contents and Titian’s pictures for tits and the best way out is to plunge into some senseless show that can be viewed at the fabulous company’s gadget or another catching game of Plants VS Zombies at the iPhone.

The whole idea of a corporation parenting children when their real parents are alive is hideous and disgusting. It seems that we live in a very strange world where bringing up children is a duty not of their parents or relatives at least, not of the society and government with its educational establishments and correctional institutions but of huge corporations. Maybe it’s time to give away the whole reproduction duty to them and plunge into the abyss of entertainment and pleasure without any side thought?