Apple removes "Gay Cure" app from iTunes
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Apple removes "Gay Cure" app from iTunes
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Re: Apple removes "Gay Cure" app from iTunes
#2I really don't know how good the "offensive to large groups of people" standard is. If there were a Qur'an app, might not a large group of (racist, xenophobic) people find the idea of a book dictated by an angel to be offensive? Fortunately, Apple is a corporation and need not concern itself with being as exactingly fair as the federal government.
Re: Apple removes "Gay Cure" app from iTunes
#3I really don't know how good the "offensive to large groups of people" standard is. If there were a Qur'an app, might not a large group of (racist, xenophobic) people find the idea of a book dictated by an angel to be offensive? Fortunately, Apple is a corporation and need not concern itself with being as exactingly fair as the federal government.
More to the point, apple would never have approved the sceptics annotated bible.
Re: Apple removes "Gay Cure" app from iTunes
#4I really don't know how good the "offensive to large groups of people" standard is. If there were a Qur'an app, might not a large group of (racist, xenophobic) people find the idea of a book dictated by an angel to be offensive? Fortunately, Apple is a corporation and need not concern itself with being as exactingly fair as the federal government.
Apple doesn't actually have to be fair at all. They do, however, have to keep their shareholders happy, and that means they have to be careful not to do things that will significantly hurt sales.
Re: Apple removes "Gay Cure" app from iTunes
#5It didn't deserve to be removed in my opinion. It wasn't hurting anyone by being there.
That being said, I can understand why Apple did remove it, because it doesn't make any business sense to enter a PR war over the relatively miniscule amount of profit they'd make from this app.
Re: Apple removes "Gay Cure" app from iTunes
#6I really don't know how good the "offensive to large groups of people" standard is. If there were a Qur'an app, might not a large group of (racist, xenophobic) people find the idea of a book dictated by an angel to be offensive? Fortunately, Apple is a corporation and need not concern itself with being as exactingly fair as the federal government.
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Re: Apple removes "Gay Cure" app from iTunes
#7It didn't deserve to be removed in my opinion. It wasn't hurting anyone by being there. That being said, I can understand why Apple did remove it, because it doesn't make any business sense to enter a PR war over the relatively miniscule amount of profit they'd make from this app.
Why are people downvoting this?
I'm not saying it should necessarily be upvoted or anything, I'm just wondering what part of it people are taking exception to.
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Re: Apple removes "Gay Cure" app from iTunes
#9I really don't know how good the "offensive to large groups of people" standard is. If there were a Qur'an app, might not a large group of (racist, xenophobic) people find the idea of a book dictated by an angel to be offensive? Fortunately, Apple is a corporation and need not concern itself with being as exactingly fair as the federal government.
Create some litmus test apps, then. Put up a "Christian Cure" and "Muslim Cure" app and see if they get taken down or rejected. It would be interesting to see the results.
Re: Apple removes "Gay Cure" app from iTunes
#10It didn't deserve to be removed in my opinion. It wasn't hurting anyone by being there. That being said, I can understand why Apple did remove it, because it doesn't make any business sense to enter a PR war over the relatively miniscule amount of profit they'd make from this app.
> It wasn't hurting anyone by being there
I have to respectfully disagree. I'm glad they got rid of this stupid app. It's simply hate sugar-coated with psuedo-science. Apple made the right decision.
"app store removes questionable content" -- How is this news? It's not like the app store is known for being a "free" or "open" platform in the first place.