Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
Showing posts with label Apple censorship of ebooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple censorship of ebooks. Show all posts
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Apple Bans 'Erotic' Book Cover From iTunes; HuffingtonPost.com, 11/16/12
HuffingtonPost.com; Apple Bans 'Erotic' Book Cover From iTunes:
"Apple has censored books before. Earlier this year, Naomi Woolf's Vagina, a feminist analysis of female anatomy, was asterisked in their store, written as "V****a." They've also eliminated portions of Ulysses, Moby Dick and the Kama Sutra. What makes the removal of Salwa Al Neimi's book unique is that it was censored not due to its content, but its supposedly pornographic cover."
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