Mike Cane has just posted about an issue that I think we all need to pay attention to: one of the drones at the Apple App Store has taken it upon himself to reject a comic book. I’ll let Mike set up the scenario… Recently I raved about a revolutionary new program called Comic Reader. [...]
Mike Cane has just posted about an issue that I think we all need to pay attention to: one of the drones at the Apple App Store has taken it upon himself to reject a comic book. I’ll let Mike set up the scenario…
Recently I raved about a revolutionary new program called Comic Reader. This program was to be used to premiere a comic book called Murderdrome.
From the title alone, you expect it not to be all bunnies and unicorns and rainbows.
But this is a comic book. A work of drawing and word balloons. It is imaginary. It is fiction.
It was submitted to the Apple App Store and the publishers received notice that it was being rejected for violating terms of the Software Developer Kit which states:
Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.
Well now wait a minute here.
Murderdrome is not an “application,” Comic Reader is. Murderdrome is content that can be read via the Comic Reader application.
Murderdrome is a book.
Apple has just banned a book.
Mike’s right. And you know what? I have a huge problem with the banning of any book…
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