Steve Jobs Says iPad Revolution Means ‘Freedom from Porn’

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | Tuesday May 18, 2010 | Peter J. Smith

[It's me]

CUPERTINO, California, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers, says his company will not be a party to the pornography industry and hopes that the iPad and iPhone revolution will help lead to a porn-free world.

Jobs reiterated his position in a heated e-mail exchange with Ryan Tate, a writer for Gawker.com, which follows news and gossip in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Tate, who admitted that he was home alone and slightly inebriated at the time, took issue with a television ad calling the iPad a “revolution” and fired off an e-mail to Jobs.

“If Dylan [American songwriter Bob Dylan is one of Jobs’ favorite musicians] was 20 today, how would he feel about your company? Would he think the iPad had the faintest thing to do with ‘revolution?’ Revolutions are about freedom,” Tate wrote, not expecting a response from Jobs.

However, Jobs did respond to Tate, triggering an e-mail duel. “Yep, freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom,” responded Jobs. “The times they are a changin’, and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away. It is.”

However, Tate accused Jobs of "imposing" his "morality" by having Apple forbid pornographic applications for iPad. “I don’t want ‘freedom from porn.’ Porn is just fine! And I think my wife would agree,” fired back Tate - who later said he regretted mentioning his wife.

Jobs shot back, “You might care more about porn when you have kids.”

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[SmokingJoe]

Steve Jobs Says iPad Revolution Means ‘Freedom from Porn’

What a load of BS.
Steve Jobs has managed to stop the browser on the iPad from pointing at porn sites has he?
Anyone with an iPad browser can point to any porn site they want, and view any porn text, images or video they want, or read the porn in their email. They don't need no stinking apps to do it.
Steve Jobs is such a BS’er.

[Persevero]

Good on you Steve! I have a new found respect.

[Talisker]

Don't get into an argument with Jobs, especially about morality.

If you do, you'll come home to the cops raiding your house.

Peace, Love & Out.

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[Niteflyr]

But it still smacks of technological fascism. It is like a TV that won’t broadcast Bravo or a pen that won’t sketch Venus de Milo. But that seems to work for the Thought Police here.

I won't buy from those who impose their morals on me. I love my iPhone but that can change at any time. It's not whether I like porn or not..it is somebody else telling me what I can or cannot view.

[freedumb2003]

>>Don’t have much God in your life, do you?<<

Like so many children, you seem to confuse having options and selecting those.

The absence of temptation is no moral high road. Rather, it is the road of the weak-minded and weak-willed who cannot resist.

I always opt for maximum freedom.

You can have your personally-created prison of the mind which relieves you of the ability to distinguish and choose. It has always been that way with moral facsicts and is clearly in evidence with you.

Your childish moralizing of being closer to God than those who desire freedom is just another example of how simple you are.

[Persevero]

“Impose your ideas on as many people as possible.”

So in order to promote freedom, everything we create must be pornography enabled?

That is ludicrous.

[Niteflyr]

The absence of temptation is no moral high road.

Exactly right. Children with no minds of their own need to be told what to do by those willing to do exactly that.

[freedumb2003]

>>I won’t buy from those who impose their morals on me. I love my iPhone but that can change at any time. It’s not whether I like porn or not..it is somebody else telling me what I can or cannot view.<<

You have but to read the invective being hurled at me to see how our fellow “conservatives” view freedom. I am pleased to see that some of us understand what liberty means.

[Persevero]

“Yeah this is sure great allowing Steve Jobs to decide what I can and cannot see on my computer.”

No, he’s deciding what he will design his computer to do.

You get to decide whether to use it like a baboon or a decent man.

Your call.

Fascists actually dictate to producers what they have to make. If the shoe fits, wear it.

[Porterville]

I see an art project for any wannabee artist.

[stripes1776]

Ryan Tate works for Gawker which is the company that bought the lost (but perhaps technically stolen under the law) iPhone so they could write about it. I would say that Gawker is perhaps an ethically challenged company.

Tate posted the email exchange he had with Jobs on Gawker's website. If the exchange is heated, it's all from Tate's side who laces his replies with profanity. Jobs kept his responses civil and to point.

[Niteflyr]

I am pleased to see that some of us understand what liberty means.

Yep...to some it is only THEIR version of liberty that is correct.

[nickcarraway]

Wait, the free market is fascism? Now I’ve heard anything.

[Harpo Speaks]

Here’s another thing Steve Jobs doesn’t like — political oppositions to wildly-liberal Henry Waxman on his iPhone...

http://yesbuthowever.com/apple-denies-free-speech-9000007/

Yes, I feel much better knowing that Steve Jobs is looking out for me!

And just because I have the option not to buy his product, doesn’t excuse him from idiocy.

[SatinDoll]

I’ve stopped buying many of my favorite mystery novel writer’s books: too much gratuitous sex and political lecturing that has NOTHING to do with mystery/murder plots.

If I wanted to read about ripping bodices and throbbing male organs I would buy romance novels - which I never do.

[freedumb2003]

>>So in order to promote freedom, everything we create must be pornography enabled?

That is ludicrous.<<

There is no such thing as “pornography enabled.” That is a chimera you have coined to create a false dichotomy. Who decides what is “porn?” If I am doing research on breast or cervical cancer or vaginal vs. cesarean section birth how can steve jobs or you discern that vs. mere salaciousness?

You clearly are unclear on what “freedom” means. If you wish, I can post links to the text of the United States Constitution and other documents that may clarify the matter for you.

[Deagle]

Have never understood the “Apple” thing... They are a propriety group that makes it very hard for normal people to modify or upgrade their systems. That is why I can understand the PC crowd - at least they can make changes as needed.

I’m sure that Apple folks here will counter, but really, do you have to pay so much for upgrades? It is all about proprietary business options...

I want to upgrade my PC system at will and can do so economically, can’t say the same about Apple products.

I would guess that it has become a “in thing” to own an Apple device but eventually that will fade with age...

That is why I see Apple as a younger age thing and a temporary advance into the market. It will eventually catch up with them (after all, the average age is going up and the birth rate is going down...)

[hope]

Tell it! The left will never stop at trying to legislate their morality...In fact their morality is immoral. They don't realize it is a matter of the heart...Help change a man's heart, for God, you irradicate immorality. The left
thinks they are their own god...unfortunately their god does not save nor does it love.

[nickcarraway]

Well, kind of. Gizmodo was the site that bought the iPhone, but they are owned by Gawker.

[freedumb2003]

>>Wait, the free market is fascism? Now I’ve heard anything.<<

Censorship is fascism. It may be legal fascism, but that is no less fascism.

Enjoy your self-welded chains.