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Posts Tagged ‘i have parents thanks’

The on-screen keyboard was awful — I got punctuation in the middle of my sentences, where I didn't want/need it; I also didn't like the auto-correct feature. 

The other thing I'm not keen on is the way Apple has set themselves up as arbiters of decency. Steve Jobs himself has stated that Apple is offering "freedom from porn". At what point does porn begin? At what point does their control end? Will there be a requirement in the future that apps must have a built in censor/filter, so that if I were to try to write a sex scene, it would refuse to show all those porny words? What if it was as indiscriminate as some bulletin-board censoring software, so that one could not write anything about the breastular Hitchrooster(ian) bottomistant? 

I am an adult. I am perfectly capable of determining what offends me, what disturbs me, and what I want to spend my money on. 

I have parents, a mother and a father each. (I also have a step-mother, so technically I've got THREE parents!) There is no reason that I need a stranger nor a corporation to parent me. Much like Amazon's GLBTQ?-book rankings #amazonfail, this is an unimpressive imposition of someone else's morals on myself. 

It's one thing entirely if I am a minor answering to my own parents; it is another entirely to have a complete stranger claiming that I do not, cannot know what is good for me, what is good for my own family. I have things on my personal laptop that I would be mortified to have my mother see, but it is MY laptop. I use it; I am, as an adult, responsible solely for myself and the content of my computer. 

It would be the same were I to have children. If there was something I didn't want them to see, I would be a PARENT and do my job to make sure they didn't see it, until they were either mature enough or old enough that I no longer had any legal responsibility to do so. I would not leave my children to the tender mercies of Steve Jobs, because he is not part of my family. His personal moral crusade is not my personal moral crusade, therefore I see no reason that he should be part of my parenting decisions — outside of choosing NOT to expose my children to his PMC as a positive thing.