Censorship! iPhone Style.

Posted by: dgoldring on Aug 26 2008 - 34 views

I just saw an extremely troubling post over at Gear Diary, in which Apple appears to have banned a comic book from the App Store.  OK…well, let me back up a minute.  You see, over in the App Store there is an application called Comic Reader.  My love for comic books compelled me to download this on my iPod Touch, and I found some extremely amazing comics, most of them independent, not your mainstream superhero type stuff.

Recently, the developers announced plans to debut a new comic, titled Murderdrome.  As Mike Cane so eloquently noted, “From the title alone, you expect it not to be all bunnies and unicorns and rainbows.”

Murderdrome was properly submitted to the App Store where it was rejected for violating terms of the Software Developer Kit which state:

Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.

The problem, though, as Mike Cane correctly points out is that this is not an application.  It is media which is played on an application which is properly distributed through the App Store. 

Take a look at the first full episode of the comic, compliments of Infuriouscomic, and then we can talk about it a little more:

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