Posted on 05/25/2010 9:46:47 AM PDT by This Just In
Pornography — The Difference Being a Parent Makes
Steve Jobs is a businessman of unquestioned ability, a technological wizard, and one of the greatest orchestrators of “cool” in world history. Nevertheless, he has not been known as a critic of pornography . . . until now.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Political scientists and sociologists long ago came to the realization that one of the most significant indicators of political behavior is parenthood. Those who bear responsibility to raise children look at the world differently from those who do not. In fact, parenthood may be the most easily identifiable predictor of an individual’s position on an entire range of issues.
Now, along comes Steve Jobs to prove the point. Jobs, the Maestro of Cool at Apple, recently engaged in a most interesting email exchange with Ryan Tate, who writes the “Valleywag” blog for the gossip Web site, Gawker.
On his initial email to Steve Jobs, Tate complained about what he described as a lack of freedom in Apple’s approach to the approval of products for its “App Store” for iPods, the iPhone, and the iPad. “If Dylan was 20 today, how would he feel about your company?,” Tate asked. “Would he think the iPad had the faintest thing to do with ‘revolution?’ Revolutions are about freedom.”
Apparently, Tate was upset about some of the restrictions put in place by Apple. Among those restrictions is a ban on pornography.
Steve Jobs threw Ryan Tate’s definition of freedom right back at him. Is Apple about freedom? “Yep,” said Jobs, “freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom. The times they are a changin’.”
(Excerpt) Read more at albertmohler.com ...
I bet Ryan Tate didn’t get it.
Well I never! OK, maybe just once.
Mr. Jobs owns a corner store and all the magazine companies want to put their stuff on his magazine rack. He doesn’t want to carry porn mags. Good on him.
Tate has freedom to get a Droid.
Well, I considered buying an Apple now.
It must be a very cold day down below when you see me applaud Apple for anything!
Precisely. Tate’s crying about freedom, when in fact, this hasn’t prevented him from choosing. The guy sounds like a two year old throwing a tantrum.\
I have to salute Jobs on this one. Grant it, his motivation does not stem from any moral ideal, but rather from a business savvy perspective.
I bet you could get porn on your iPad if the government owned Apple. Hey! Let’s start a campaign for the government take over of Apple! /s
Dr. Mohler didn’t say it was.
As long as he lets his buyers know that they do not make the application and content decisions for the product they bought. They are subject to the whims of Steve Jobs on that. He will decide how their machine can be used.
Anybody not comfortable with that can buy elsewhere.
Read post #9
While Felten does not expand upon his assertion that “one of the most basic assumptions of modern technology” is the dependence of the computer business on pornography, a look at that business will prove his thesis to be true.
You stated:
“....motivation for the creation of either the internet or html, nor its expansion.”
Mohler cited Felton:
“...the most basic assumptions of modern technology–that the computer business is built on pornography.”
There is a vast difference between “built on”, and, built for, or, as you stated, “...for the creation of...”
I understand your point, but there is a difference.
Interesting. The standard take around here is more like the interviewer. “How dare you censor porn! The republic is at stake!” Guy can do whatever he wants with his store. He (Jobs) said, Want porn? Buy Android. I’m not a big Jobs fan (I am a big Mac user) but I have to give this one to the t-shirted one.
Yea Jobs !
Maybe people learn. Some people, anyway.
He’s company, his rules.
Tate has the freedom to complain, but he wishes to deny Job the freedom to do whatever Job wishes with his company. Or at the very least, dictate what apps Job should or shouldn’t allow in this product designs.
Tate should create his own company if he doesn’t like this one.
About 15 years ago it was said the only businesses making money on the web were porn sites. These porn sites, though, were not what was driving the expansion of the web, much less advances in microprocessors.
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