Playboy Magazine is Coming to iPad without Nudity
By Dipankar Das, Gaea News NetworkSunday, August 15, 2010
Playboy, the adult magazine has decided to censor iPad apps by removing all of the indecent content in order to further avoid violation of Apple’s anti-obscenity rules. The user will be able to read Playboy without any explicit photo that titillated teenagers for long time. The most popular feature of Playboy, The Playmate of the Year, will appear on iPad as a tasteful headshot. Playboy agreed to censor its content so that the apps can be sold from the Apple Store and Apple can ban any software from the store which it considers “obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory”. Many iPad users has shown their their frustrations for the censorship
Me So Holy is the latest line Apps that apple recently prohibited. According to Apple, “Me So Holy” contains objectionable content and is in violation of Section 3.3.12 from the iPhone agreement which states:
“Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.”
MinOnline, the US media news website, wrote: “The problem for Playboy is that the missing pieces are so obvious because they are so well known.” Apple is very strong in technology industry for taking strong role against pornography. The chief executive, Steve Jobs, wrote to the customers who are against the censorship that “we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone.”