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What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs
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| The internet allowed people around the world to express themselves more freely
| and more easily. With the App Store, Apple reversed that progress. The iPhone
| and iPad constitute the most popular platform for handheld computerizing in
| America, key venues for media and software. But to put anything on the
| devices, you need Apple's permission. And the company wields its power
| aggressively.
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| In the name of protecting children from the evils of erotica â "freedom from
| porn" â and adults from one another, Jobs has banned from being installed on
| his devices gay art, gay travel guides, political cartoons, sexy pictures,
| Congressional candidate pamphlets, political caricature, Vogue fashion
| spreads, systems invented by the opposition, and other things considered
| morally suspect.
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| Apple's devices have connected us to a world of information. But they don't
| permit a full expression of ideas. Indeed, the people Apple supposedly serves
| â "the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers" â have been particularly put
| out by Jobs' lockdown. That America's most admired company has followed such
| an un-American path, and imposed centralized restrictions typical of the
| companies it once mocked, is deeply disturbing.
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