danwin.com » censorship https://danwin.com Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:29:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 Apple banned Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist’s app because it “ridicules public figures” https://danwin.com/2010/04/apple-banned-pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoonists-app-because-it-ridicules-public-figures/ https://danwin.com/2010/04/apple-banned-pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoonists-app-because-it-ridicules-public-figures/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:48:21 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=746 Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist Mark Fiore, who won this year’s Pulitzer for his editorial cartoons, says he tried to make an iPhone app but it was just too politically hot for Apple’s guidelines. From Nieman Labs (h/t Poynter): In December, Apple rejected his iPhone app, NewsToons, because, as Apple put it, his satire “ridicules public figures,” […]

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]]> Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist Mark Fiore, who won this year’s Pulitzer for his editorial cartoons, says he tried to make an iPhone app but it was just too politically hot for Apple’s guidelines. From Nieman Labs (h/t Poynter):

In December, Apple rejected his iPhone app, NewsToons, because, as Apple put it, his satire “ridicules public figures,” a violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, which bars any apps whose content in “Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory.”
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Apple attached screenshots of the offending material, including an image depicting the White House gate crashers interrupting an Obama speech. Two other grabs include images referencing torture, Balloon Boy, and various political issues.


Here’s an “offending image” of Fiore’s.

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]]> https://danwin.com/2010/04/apple-banned-pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoonists-app-because-it-ridicules-public-figures/feed/ 2 Clinton in China, and “Internet Freedom” https://danwin.com/2010/01/clinton-in-china-and-internet-freedom/ https://danwin.com/2010/01/clinton-in-china-and-internet-freedom/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:14:27 +0000 https://danwin.com/thoughts/clinton-in-china-and-internet-freedom/ “As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.” – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 21, 2010

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]]> “As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.”

– Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 21, 2010

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]]> https://danwin.com/2010/01/clinton-in-china-and-internet-freedom/feed/ 0 Google publicly calls out China over hacking of human rights advocates’ accounts https://danwin.com/2010/01/google-publicly-calls-out-china-over-hacking-of-human-rights-advocates-accounts/ https://danwin.com/2010/01/google-publicly-calls-out-china-over-hacking-of-human-rights-advocates-accounts/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:20:25 +0000 https://danwin.com/thoughts/google-publicly-calls-out-china-over-hacking-of-human-rights-advocates-accounts/ On the Google Blog, Google’s chief legal counsel David Drummond reveals that a “highly sophisticated and targeted” attack on its corporate infrastructure was traced back to China. The objective, Google believes, was to compromise the GMail accounts of Chinese human-rights activists (two were accessed, Google believes, with no actual content revealed). This attack has apparently […]

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]]> On the Google Blog, Google’s chief legal counsel David Drummond reveals that a “highly sophisticated and targeted” attack on its corporate infrastructure was traced back to China. The objective, Google believes, was to compromise the GMail accounts of Chinese human-rights activists (two were accessed, Google believes, with no actual content revealed).

This attack has apparently put a bug in Google’s conscience; Drummond writes that they are no longer willing to self-censor Google.cn:

These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.

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