Comment Re:the more things change... (Score 1) 430
no, no! this time computers are doing the measuring. They're never wrong.
no, no! this time computers are doing the measuring. They're never wrong.
That's not entirely accurate. Censorship is the refusal to publish, etc. because the content is objectional, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient. This does not include declining something because it is unmarketable, poorly-written, or boring. As with most real-word categories, it is a fuzzy one: unmarketable and objectionable often overlap, and it's impossible to always point at a single reason that something could theoretically be declined.
Nevertheless, what Apple has done is clearly censorship; but simply (accurately) describing something as censorship doesn't imply that the censor has no right to do it; it can, however, imply that the decision is a poor or morally suspect one.
There is an incredible amount of space in between what we have a right to do and what we should do.
Hello, straw man. Any reasonable person is going to be able draw a line between animal life, plant life, and bacterial/viral life.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.