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Comment Re:News Flash: Apple limits app store! (Score 1) 664

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.

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