[LINK] Steve Jobs: Great unwashed don't need PCs

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Brendan Scott wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 01:19 PM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>> Ivan Trundle wrote:
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>>> Apple makes choices about what software (not content) is available in the way that Nintendo does (for example). On the other hand, television companies make choices about what content I get to view, radio stations do the same with what they offer, newspapers too.
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>> But isn't that what people say is good about the Internet? - That we 
>> can, if we wish, bypass the gatekeepers?
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>> Without wanting to sound like Senator Steve, what makes Apple a more fit 
>> and accountable gatekeeper than a government?
> 
> This is a good question. 
> The thing is Apple's accountability comes from a different source (ie profit motive) and different constituency.  Not that I want to support Apple as a gatekeeper in any way, but I think the risks to access are different for corporate vs State censorship.  Corporates for example, shouldn't care if there's a back channel to what they're censoring.
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Don't forget AOL, if you even remember who they were, chose 
the same "family safe" approach.

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