Apple Blocks Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist From App Store

Mark Fiore made a short online history this week by being the first web - only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize . His editorial cartoons , though , were reject from the App Store for violate Apple ’s anti - satire provisions . That ’s a grave precedent . UPDATED :

A lot of hay has been made over the App Store ’s policy , particularly overapps that are hold pornographic(or bikini - ridden ) . But it looks as though theconcerns raised earlierby German powder store Stern are becoming more and more legitimized : Apple ’s produce judgments on editorial cognitive content .

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concord to Laura McGannat the Nieman Journalism Lab , Fiore incur the following email from Apple in late December in reply to the compliance of his NewsToons app :

Dear Mr. Fiore ,

give thanks you for submitting NewsToons to the App Store . We ’ve retrospect NewsToons and determine that we can not post this version of your iPhone software program to the App Store because it contains subject matter that make fun public figure and is in violation of Section 3.3.14 from the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement which states :

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“ Applications may be rejected if they take content or fabric of any kind ( textual matter , graphics , images , photograph , sounds , etc . ) that in Apple ’s sensible discernment may be find out objectionable , for case , material that may be considered detestable , pornographic , or defamatory . ” case of such content have been seize for your reference .

If you believe that you could make the necessary changes so that NewsToons does not violate the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement , we further you to do so and feed back it for brushup .

Regards ,

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So that ’s the financial statement Apple is making : material that “ ridicules public figure ” is on the same plane as adult and repugnant apps .

Apple ’s walled garden approach to App Store content means they can exclude pretty much whomever they need . But can and should are plain entirely unlike things . And if they ’re solemn about the iPad beingthe future of medium , they ’re going to need to live with that satirical — even controversial — voices are an essential part of the information landscape . Otherwise , the future tense might a fairly bleak topographic point .

Lesdilley