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Gawker Calls Out Apple on their Gay Culture Ban

06/15/2010- by Natasia Langfelder

A few years ago, I was sitting in a classroom in college, while my professor worried that WalMart could cut off suburban and rural access to gay books and music artists. With the advent of the internet permeation of our lives, I thought he was silly. Gay was never going to go away. However, Apple, controllers of the iphone and the ipad, is censoring gay content on their products.

Gawker points out that Apple demanded the deletion of large chunks of a gay make-out scene in a graphic novel of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. However, in another graphic novel, Kick Ass, scenes of heterosexual sex and female nudity is allowed. Apple also includes apps from Playboy and Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit edition while banning a gay travel guide.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs was mired in controversy a few weeks ago for his anti-porn stance. When he emailed a Gawker blogger and he wanted to protext children from porn.

 ”we believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone,” for the sake of children. In an email exchange with Valleywag, he told us he wanted to offer the world “freedom from porn,” and said “our motives are pure.”

While Apple has reversed their ban on The Importance of Being Earnest, they have shown that they have the ultimate say in what is ‘acceptable’ and what is not. Gawker sums it up by saying:

Jobs’ issue seems to be thinking Apple can and should write the moral code for the tens of millions of global iPhone and iPad customers, who hail from a hugely diverse array of backgrounds. To the extent those customers do share values, it’s that they tend to pride themselves on their tolerance for how other people express themselves, and on how eclectic and unpredictable their own tastes are. Shackling them to a sadly homogenized digital marketplace built around Jobs’ personal tastes — grossly violent movies are OK, line-drawings of breasts in the 17-years-and-older section are verboten — seems to fly in the face of the CEO’s professional responsibilities. Both commercial and, yes, moral.

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