Trent Reznor Responds To Apple: You Want Obscene, I’ll Show You Obscene

[Ohio Joe]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/03/trent-reznor-responds-to-apple-you-want-obscene-ill-show-you-obscene/

He has a point.

[Orrex]

1. He makes a good point about Wal*Mart, too

Years back, Wal*Mart refused to carry some insignificant band's CD (I think it was Insane Klown Posse). However, they carried the hard-R rated Bad Lieutenant, complete with extended full frontal shots of ol' Harvey and a whole lot of shooting up. And it's not as though the dialogue is family-friendly, either.

The issue isn't censorship, because a private company can choose not to sell whatever it wants. But a consistent application of their obscenity policy would be nice.

[Deep13]

3. It's censorship by a corporation rather than a state.

I have a hard time thinking of a gigantic, publicly-traded corporation as "private." We should invent a third catagory for such businesses: public, private and corporate.

[Orrex]

4. Not a bad idea

But until the corporation actually makes the laws (rather than simply buying legislators) and can actually ban the item (rather than simply choosing not to sell it), then it's not censorship.

Well, I guess it's censorship in a generic "they prevent us from buying it" sort of way, but that's manifestly different from an all-out legal ban on the distribution of something.

[Soylent Brice]

2. that's AWESOME.

and yes, he most certainly has a point.

[Danger Mouse]

5. I like the point he makes about Wal Mart. He was pretty much dead on.

[Initech]

6. We need to make free speech laws apply to the corporate sector too.

Such bullshit if you ask me, and Trent is 100% right.

[pokerfan]

7. and yet the Baby Shaking game was approved

http://www.appscout.com/2009/04/apples_baby_shaker_apology_nee.php

[Nicole Lambeth]

8. I was JUST thinking that n/t