>>So in order to promote freedom, everything we create must be pornography enabled?
That is ludicrous.<<
There is no such thing as “pornography enabled.” That is a chimera you have coined to create a false dichotomy. Who decides what is “porn?” If I am doing research on breast or cervical cancer or vaginal vs. cesarean section birth how can steve jobs or you discern that vs. mere salaciousness?
You clearly are unclear on what “freedom” means. If you wish, I can post links to the text of the United States Constitution and other documents that may clarify the matter for you.
I am responding to Steve Job’s description of his iPad. I have not examined the operating system, nor do I plan to. I am assuming he knows what he is talking about.
Steve Jobs has the freedom to decide what to allow and not allow on his computer. You can’t take that freedom away from him.
The Constitution does not allow you to force producers to produce things to meet your preferences. You should read it.
Your claim is the true Chimera... and that is the true strawman argument, and it is absurd... Jobs is NOT preventing research on any such terms... he is merely preventing the sales of pornographic applications on the Apple App store. That has NOTHING at all to do with what can be searched for on the web, porn or scientific research, it has to do with whether he wants his company to be a purveyor of pornographic material or not. He has chosen NOT.
If I had store, I too would chose NOT.