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My dear Steve Jobs e-mail RE: Press freedoms and Apple's news censors

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Robb Montgomery
on June 3, 2010
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I just sent this e-mail to Steve Jobs.

Wish me luck that he will reply.

My question is simply this:
Can Apple reconcile Steve Jobs’ support for press freedoms with the fact that they censor news content for apps?

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Will Apple ban newspaper iPhone apps for nudity?

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Robb Montgomery
on May 21, 2010
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CAIRO: Will Apple ban popular newspaper apps from the iPhone App store?

UPDATE: of the Las Vegas Sun tells me that he is worried about his news app being banned. (full quote further down)

Update No. 2. that “The International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) is considering making a complaint to Apple over the computer firm’s request that German publisher Axel Springer censor the naked girls on one of its iPhone apps.”

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