[freedumb2003]

>>THIS is the free market at work! Rather than cater to the lowest common denominator, Apple has chosen to deliberately exclude certain market segments it deems unworthy of its products. Just as the freedom of association innately requires a freedom to disassociate, so too does a free market necessitate that entities be allowed to refuse to do business with whom they choose. <<

Good luck researching breast cancer if, God forbid, you need to do so. Also, you should pray every night that steve jobs doesn’t decide that Free Republic is a “hate site” to be excluded from the iPad’s access list.

When you place yourself under the yoke of another’s arbitrary decision of what you can and cannot view, you give up your ability to decide for yourself.

[SoConPubbie]

Good luck researching breast cancer if, God forbid, you need to do so. Also, you should pray every night that steve jobs doesn’t decide that Free Republic is a “hate site” to be excluded from the iPad’s access list.

Right, go to the extreme possibilities to try and make your point.

That argument might work if you are working with a Puritan here, you're not.

This is Steve Jobs we are talking about.

He's probably not graced the inside of a church for decades.

[WVKayaker]

Are you that thick, or do you just pretend on FR?

If I own a string of movie theaters, should I be castigated for showing only G rated movies? According to your thesis, yes.

But, in reality, you have misstated Jobs position. He is not allowing porn apps to be sold by Apple. The iPad is able to access any website, so you can look at all the sluts you wish (or maybe it's just the guys...).

Ignorance can be cured. Stupid can't.

Freedom means I can make a three legged stool, or a four legged chair, but it doesn't require me to make a table.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

It's always funny but a little sad when libertarians throw their hallowed ideals under the bus for their petty vices. In this case the free market principle that businesses and people should be allowed to decide not to participate in legal commerce with whom they choose. They will viciously try to destroy anything, including their own ideology, that might undermine the three cardinal perversions of libertarianism: drugs, porn, and prostitution. This politically self-destructive tendency of putting their depravity above their integrity always exposes them as the children and addicts they so often are.