Steve Jobs Says iPad Offers Freedom From Porn

[descendency]

Sieg Heil?

 

[Guest]

Many times I find the zoom feature on your website useless... Please correct this problem ASAP!!!!!

 

[punny_g]

the worlds biggest TOMMY TANKER complaing about his favourite passtime, PORN!! Its the quiet ones that are the worst...

 

[punny_g]

the worlds biggest tommy tanker complains about porn....

 

[bearracuda]

"They don't need to publish on the ipad if they don't want to." Saying that to any company or publisher is like telling Average Joe "Oh, you don't have to wear pants in public if you don't want to." Yes, that's certainly true, but if we didn't wear pants in public, we'd get stared at, yelled at, and arrested. Just like any big company or publisher would be hurting if they suddenly lost 20% of the people who make use of their product. Which is exactly what apple is doing by cutting off the main resource said publisher uses to create their product.

Imagine a scenario if you will. A lumberjack's boss takes away his chainsaw and gives him a hand saw. The boss then tells him if he wants to keep his job, he has to cut down trees with a hand saw now. Would that be acceptable behavior on part of the lumberjack's company? Absolutely not, so why does jobs (and all of apple for that matter) suddenly think it's acceptable for them to pull these stunts? Jobs thinks he's "entitled" to make life hard on publishers?

 

[Guest]

I know the man comes across as a nob, but sometimes freedom is about not having infinite choice.
http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2006/09/paradox_of_choi.html

One thing I like about using the macs at work is that it is like working in a peaceful quiet room, you don't have to have an army of anti-virus, anti-malware apps running eating up resources, you don't have to be anywhere near as worried when opening an e-mail that you're not quite 100% sure about, and you don't have to worry whether your particular driver version for your graphics card might mean your app will crash or you'll need to jump through hoops just to get it to install.
There are a number of reasons for all that, not all apple's doing, but having a locked down platform that is free from a lot of the nastier problems that having a windows based PC online is sometimes a good thing. For most people the apps they want are available for the platform and do everything they need, and without the hassle.
For the rest of us, there are PCs and Fujitsu tablets, the hotrods of the world, but you have to be a bit of a hotrod hobbiest at least not to run afoul of them, for some of us, that is part of the fun, for the majority of people that just want to use a computer as a tool or as an appliance, that 'freedom' gets in the way a lot of the time.

 

[Hilarion]

Since he "hates it" so much I certainly hope that he hasn't reproduced. If he did it must have been something like yeast budding to recreate itself.

 

[asiaprime]

freedom from or restriction to... that's the bigger question.

 

[pertshire]

People are just angry because they can't watch porn in it.

 

[Usersname]

What prevents Ryan Tate from engaging his brain before he types his replies?

I don't approve of censorship, but as for porn, I've never indulged so I can't comment beyond believing it (and religion) degrades all participants. I've personally never seen a single pornographic image via the internet (and I've been surfing for a couple of decades so one must have to look for it). Mac OSX and Safari have parental controls, I would have thought such controls would be coded into iPhone OS. So, I'm not sure how SJ's arguments about liberation from porn holds up.

 

[reddragon72]

"The times they are a changin', and some traditional PC folk feel like their world is slipping away. It is."

That line right there is the funniest thing I have ever read. Job's basically says that he will single handedly end the existence of PC's. Job's my boy your products are a LOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGG way from ever replacing the everyday PC. One simple item shows, promotes, proves, and is executed every single day in the PC world.... Freedom! Who wants to have only one or two choices for hardware? Who wants to have only a handful of applications? Who wants to have games that only consist of sunshine, rainbows(Job's personal favorite), and puppy dogs? No-ne that I know of. And that big factor on the limited hardware, only having one or two choices stifles innovation. Give it up Job's, your products will not win in the end due to there closed off limitations that you put into place.

BTW, keeping violent games from the hands of kids is what Nintendo wanted and look at them now, they have gone against that original philosophy cause it didn't work out for them.

 

[dark_lord69]

If only we had more ultra conservatives like steve jobs. Then the world would have no porn. No blood or violence in movies or on TV. No video games unless educational. No gambling. No acohol. No sex without marrige.

Basically life would suck and Las Vegas wouldn't exsist.

I'm already pissed off about how the world has become much more p*ssy whipped than it was 20-30 years ago.
Back then you could:
-Smoke where ever you wanted to
-You didn't have to worry about sexual harrasment
-You didn't have to be "politically correct" when talking about a minority
-You could say "I'm gonna kill you" and not get arrested for it
-Teachers could spank or slap kids that would mouth off in class
-Drill sargents could punch and hit soldiers

Nowadays you can't spank your kid if they are 18+ cause they can call the police and you will be arrested for assult. And if they are under 18 the police will still come and like bring child services. In the 70's the police would have told these kids to listen to thier parents and not to call about it again.

 

[nukemaster]

Freedom is choice. Plain and simple. Thats no freedom.

 

[Usersname]

I hope you're wearing a sarcasm hat dark_lord69?

 

[Usersname]

[citation][nom]nukemaster[/nom]Freedom is choice. Plain and simple. Thats no freedom.[/citation]

No, freedom is not choice. I think you need to study philosophy. Start with something simple like Existentialism: de Beauvoir, Sartre, le Duce, Nietzsche, Camus among others should see you on your way to comprehending 'freedom'.

 

[kelemvor4]

The funniest part is that you can watch porn on it all day if you want to. Just go to your favorite website and click the ipod/iphone version and viola. Too bad it will end up taking the DOJ a few years to lay the smack down on apple; they're acting very much like IBM before they got the beat down.

 

[sliem]

Apple also gives people freedom from their money.
Apple: "No money, no worries -- no worries, freedom"

 

[jellico]

You know, I knew that Steve Jobs was uptight, but this is ridiculous. I swear, the stick up his ass has a stick up its ass!

 

[gm0n3y]

If he'd say 'the ipad offers FREE porn' instead of 'freedom from', I'd be sold.

 

[tburns1]

I think the collegiate LSD made him a communist.

 

[deck]

[citation][nom]doktorrworm[/nom]I know the man comes across as a nob, but sometimes freedom is about not having infinite choice.http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog [...] _choi.htmlOne thing I like about using the macs at work is that it is like working in a peaceful quiet room, you don't have to have an army of anti-virus, anti-malware apps running eating up resources, you don't have to be anywhere near as worried when opening an e-mail that you're not quite 100% sure about, and you don't have to worry whether your particular driver version for your graphics card might mean your app will crash or you'll need to jump through hoops just to get it to install.There are a number of reasons for all that, not all apple's doing, but having a locked down platform that is free from a lot of the nastier problems that having a windows based PC online is sometimes a good thing. For most people the apps they want are available for the platform and do everything they need, and without the hassle.For the rest of us, there are PCs and Fujitsu tablets, the hotrods of the world, but you have to be a bit of a hotrod hobbiest at least not to run afoul of them, for some of us, that is part of the fun, for the majority of people that just want to use a computer as a tool or as an appliance, that 'freedom' gets in the way a lot of the time.[/citation]

You are poorly informed. Pwn2Own has shown numerous times that browsers running in OSX are just as suseptable to attack as browsers runnning in Windows. This preception that OSX is somehow more secure is inaccurate.

Just because you don't have an "army of anti-virus" apps running does not mean your comp is secure.

 

[deck]

[citation][nom]usersname[/nom]No, freedom is not choice. I think you need to study philosophy. Start with something simple like Existentialism: de Beauvoir, Sartre, le Duce, Nietzsche, Camus among others should see you on your way to comprehending 'freedom'.[/citation]


Freedom can be choice. Just because you are an existentialist does not mean the rest of us are.

For someone espousing philosophical knowledge, I am surprised you would make such an egregious assumption.

 

[doomtomb]

Honestly I don't think there's anything wrong with the way Steve Jobs is running his company. Freedom from porn, battery trashers, etc. Basically stopping users from having to worry about the bad stuff on computers and the internet. It's his company, so he can run it anyway he wants. I don't think it's evil. If you are that upset about it, just stick with PC. Nobody is forcing you to buy Apple. But there must be a reason you are upset, is it because Apple has much better quality than virtually everything on the PC market? I'm talking about attention to detail like the unibody construction that's lightweight and robust. No cheesy plastic on your laptop that breaks off. I haven't seen anything come close to that. I'm not trying to be a hypocrite, I'm typing on a PC right now.

 

[candrwhite]

[citation][nom]pertshire[/nom]People are just angry because they can't watch porn in it.[/citation]

Ahh but they can... the browser does not prevent you from visiting porn sites. He may change that, someday, but it hasn't happened yet. So now oh wise Steve worshiper, what is the reason everyone is angry?

Couldn't possibly be that Steve is a control freak not only at Apple, but now wants to be a control freak for everyone. I'd say it was his recent bout of illness and realization of his own mortality, but I'm sure that would be crossing the line.

 

[applegetsmelaid]

Steve is right. Ever since I got my ipad I don't need porn anymore. I get the real thing now because the ipad is such a chick magnet.