Thread: MacStories: Is Sex Censored from iBooks Best Sellers List?
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Old 07-28-2010, 02:39 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole View Post
Apple is simply choosing not to provide a particular product. The product is available many other places.... Only governments can truly censor...

A bookstore (for example) cannot stock every possible book ever made in history. So they decide what their inventory will be. Just because they may not stock a particular book is not censorship, it's just they don't stock that particular book. If I own a bookstore and choose not to sell the bible (the most banned book in history, and is even now banned in several countries), it is my choice as owner of the shop, and not censorship. But, if the government tells ALL bookstores that they cannot sell bibles... that is censorship.

Sorry, just my rant about what is censorship......
Bremen, I agree with your example completely.

But they ARE providing the books for sale, but if they are deleting the titles from the iBooks best seller lists, then to me that is a form of censorship.
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