Apple has become infamous for their very strong arm approach to censorship in the app store, culminating in the great adult app purge of earlier this year. Even though none of the applications featured nudity, they were still enough for Apple to consider them innapropriate.
It appears Apple has also taken a shine to forcing indie comic creators to censor their content. While no nudity is present, Jesus Hates Zombies by Stephen Lindsay was banned, even though Marvel’s ultra-violent comic Kick-Ass was allowed without editing.
Apple has also forced creators of gay content to censor their comics, either by re-writing suggestive scripts, or censoring the content with black bars. None of these involved explicit nudity, but rather mildly risque content.
Would Apple have disallowed this content, if it was with women? It’s hard to judge, as Apple is extremely puritanical in what it will and won’t allow. Even though it’s their store, and their right to censor as they see fit, I do find it unsettling to see non-explicit sexual content completely disallowed.
[via Gail Simone]
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You know, It’s getting awfully tiresome to keep reading about Apple and their skewed App approval process. If they cannot maintain consistency, then maybe they need to hire an outside source to manage the approval process.
I know it’s their devices and they have the right to have the final say on anything, but it’s a really bad sign when they are never consistent about what they will and will not allow into the app store. That makes it seem like they have a bunch of eager, yet BORED college students sitting around testing apps all day. Some are a bit more “open” than others, which would be why one thing makes it through, yet a very similar app might not.
However they do it, it needs some serious re-vamping.
Call me crazy but I read about this last week from the Prism comics RSS feed, and while I do not agree with such censorship I believe that The creators of the content mentioned above were not “strong armed” by Apple in the sense that the company told the “Change this or else!” The content in question was changed to prove a point I.E ‘If I black out all the non explicit nudity I bet they won’t censor it!’ A kind of sarcastic and angry jab at the company. I only mention this because the image Pictured was one of the ones shown to have been changed. If other comics or artists have been forced to edit their content and that is what you are referring to could you please give some other examples than the one mentioned in your article the one from CBR linked from the Prism RSS. Feed) http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/05/that-ol-double-standard/comment-page-1/
I am a strong supporter of gay and lesbian media, and I do not like Apples adult content policy myself but I have to point out the facts that the information in this post seems a little skewed Ms. Simone. You’re still full of awesome but I have to have some more background information before I grab my pitchfork and torch.