Comments on: China allows iTunes back in after “Songs” censorship http://www.applegazette.com/itunes/china-allows-itunes-back-in-after-songs-censorship/ Apple Gazette - An Apple Blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:36:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chris Marsden http://www.applegazette.com/itunes/china-allows-itunes-back-in-after-songs-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-84828 Chris Marsden Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:39:17 +0000 http://www.applegazette.com/?p=3972#comment-84828 Individual stations and/or the FCC censoring for content in a particular timeframe/etc... due to potential children watching is a lot different than the federal government banning something because it doesn't fit with their politics. Imagine the US government restricting access to "Bowling for Columbine" or "An Inconvenient Truth" simply because they didn't agree with the premise. And not only restricting access to it, but penalizing and limiting anyone or anything that possibly gave you access to it. US Censorship...editing out cursewords, sex, and violence in certain settings where children may have access. Chinese Censorship... Denying the existence of things they don't agree with, imprisoning reporters, penalizing corporations who want to do business in China, etc... Individual stations and/or the FCC censoring for content in a particular timeframe/etc… due to potential children watching is a lot different than the federal government banning something because it doesn’t fit with their politics. Imagine the US government restricting access to “Bowling for Columbine” or “An Inconvenient Truth” simply because they didn’t agree with the premise. And not only restricting access to it, but penalizing and limiting anyone or anything that possibly gave you access to it.

US Censorship…editing out cursewords, sex, and violence in certain settings where children may have access.

Chinese Censorship… Denying the existence of things they don’t agree with, imprisoning reporters, penalizing corporations who want to do business in China, etc…

]]> By: FreeRange http://www.applegazette.com/itunes/china-allows-itunes-back-in-after-songs-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-84705 FreeRange Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:14:31 +0000 http://www.applegazette.com/?p=3972#comment-84705 Apple has done the appropriate thing. To think that we in the U.S. don't sensor is ridiculous. Just look at how movies are butchered when shown on TV, even on some cable channels now. We can't even control "censorship" in our own country, let alone others. Chinese should have access to iTunes, and the only alternative solution was to keep the album accessible, and thus prevent the Chinese from using anything on iTunes - that would be a worse form of "censorship". Apple has done the appropriate thing. To think that we in the U.S. don’t sensor is ridiculous. Just look at how movies are butchered when shown on TV, even on some cable channels now. We can’t even control “censorship” in our own country, let alone others. Chinese should have access to iTunes, and the only alternative solution was to keep the album accessible, and thus prevent the Chinese from using anything on iTunes – that would be a worse form of “censorship”.

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