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

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Robb Montgomery
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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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Dear Steve,

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Will Apple ban newspaper iPhone apps for nudity?

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

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

Update No. 2. The Guardian reports 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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Flash graphics, Berlin style: 60 years of German art

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Robb Montgomery
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Berlin: These photos show the very cool touch tables at the recent gallery exhibition in Berlin held at the Martin Gropius Bau. The collection featured 60 years of German art and these Flash interactives (In English and German) let patrons learn more about the art all around them.

Sixty influential artworks are on display in Berlin to celebrate Germany’s 60 years of statehood. The exhibition shows milestones of German post-war art - painting, sculpture, photography and installation – from 1949 until 2009.

Under the title ‘60 years, 60 works’, the exhibition features one piece of art for each year between the founding of the German state in 1949 and the present. Sixty short films accompanying the artwork give visitors an overview of important events in Germany from each year and elucidate the external influences that shaped the works.

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