“The socially conservative Parents Television Council (PTC) thinks a wealth of salacious apps are currently available for iPhone users — things like ‘My Vibe,’ which converts the iPhone into a vibrator, and ‘Love Positions Free,’ which has drawings of couples having sex,” Koprowski reports. “The group has publicly demanded that Apple stop providing porn to children — and clean up its act.”
Koprowski reports, ” In recent weeks the PTC successfully lobbied Apple to remove some blatant pornography from the iTunes store, including an application called ‘Shawna Lenee Private Dance,’ which featured a porn movie star and former Penthouse vixen fondling herself… Gavin McKiernan, the PTC’s grassroots director, said Apple executives assured the group that the content on its App Store would be clean, and he hopes that any remaining pornographic applications or the many sexually-themed ‘wallpapers’ still available are “there by mistake, possibly. Apple needs to maintain its corporate social responsibility,’ he said.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, for fscks sake.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MrMcLargeHuge” for the heads up.]
Fsck them- you give a pig the finger and he wants then whole hand…
Apple needs to remove the biggest porn app on their devices. It’s called Safari and Apple created it. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. Lol
Next they’ll say Apple should not sell their phone to anyone under 18 yes old
sorry PTC,
Web Browser + Guy = Porn.
WAIT! Apple could just stop selling iPhones to guys! yeah!
Searching for Love Positions right now!
censorship of any kind is a slippery slope, this is a prime example.
I think the PTC has too much time on their hands. They should try having sex instead of trying to ban any mention of it everywhere. That would kill some time for them.
Riiiight. Remove the apps that don’t even contain nudity when there’s a stock web browser available that can go to any full-on porn site. Genius.
iPhone os could use better parental controls though. If apple wanted to they could also set up dns server to block porn for safari through the parental controls. Also ratings system could be implemented on the app store. No big deal
Apple has kept a pretty good balance. This is a bit much.
Are these people crazy?
Maybe they should request to keep porn off of all computers as well. No Safari, Firefox, IE, etc.
Better yet, let’s not even have a world wide web. That way, nobody can get porn. U know what, forget it, let’s not have computers period. That should solve that……but wait, there’s magazines…we should remove that as well, and dvd players. get rid of that as well.
I know, let’s live like Afghanstan. Back to the Flintstone age. No porn for sure.
This could be a slipery slope for apple if they give in to these demands. What will be next. Will they be asking for atheist apps to be removed
Ridiculous
I’m so tired of complainers. When did parents stop doing their job and police their own kids….???
Only Faux News would broadcast such tripe. Our children would be better helped if Apple banned the Faux News Channel app(s) in order to prevent exposure to their poisonous, right wing propaganda.
Did you know that there are rooms full of people at the PTC and other ‘watchdog’ organizations whose job it is to sit around all day watching porn? It’s true. They’re perverted so you don’t have to be.
…which is kind of like claiming to be socially righteous by sending a gang of murderers out to kill people before anyone else gets the chance to.
Way to go, puritans. You’re keeping us clean by getting all kinds of dirty.
Parental Control is designed to keep parents off the internet.
Why are people so afraid of pee pees and wee wees and boobies?
hey Phil Schiller, this is what happens when you publicly declare that “moms” guide your corporate vision. you’ve opened the door, i hope you brought your knitting needles.
Of course, they have no problem with blood-and-guts first-person shooter games. Violence: OK.
Sex: No Way!
WTF! apple already has parental controls in place people, TURN THEM ON. corporate america isn’t your babysitter, take an active role in your childs tech life and stop dumbing down the internet for the rest of us.
I’m fine with people putting on their devices whatever they want, but I think parents should be empowered to enforce decency standards that they are trying to teach their children. I wish there was a way to filter explicit material in safari.
MDN, these are your people, Fox News, conservatives, et al … deal with it. lol
There is a very real challenge in raising children in today’s world, finding a good balance between not sheltering them too much while also keeping them from being exposed to stuff they’re not yet mature enough to handle responsibly.
At the very least, parents should be able to have a way of setting their own standards and ground rules, without being undermined by the technology they choose to use.
Unfortunately, it sounds like these PTC folks go way too far, and give the more moderate yet responsible parents a bad name.
Porn purveyors pervert the proletariat.
These are the same knuckleheads that complain about pictures of nekkid humans in medical books.