We just don't get it
Apple has pulled
the plug on an iPhone application which offered an RSS feed to the free
speech outfit the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
It seems Jobs' Mob looked
at the application which was perfectly innocent but noticed that a blog on
the site linked to a Downfall parody. The movie charts Adolf Hitler's last
days in his bunker and the parody shows Hitler as an furious movie executive
and demanding takedown notices be sent to everyone using his clips for
parody.
Apple rejected the application because it contained "objectionable
content" and removed it from the Application Store. Apple got into all
sorts of hot water when it first banned and then re-instated a farting
application at the store. It seems that while it gets farting jokes the
subtleties of irony and the niceties of Free
Speech sale over Jobs' Mob
higher than the International Space Station.