Is Apple's Cure Worse Than the Disease?
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I need to be careful how I wade into this water, but I have to wonder: should Apple’s pulling this week of an app released by a Christian nonprofit, Exodus International—dubbed by opponents the “gay cure” app—concern us, whatever our political and religious affiliations?
Granted, it’s not censorship. It’s not a government-imposed restriction on free speech. Apple is free to decide what it allows to be sold in its app store. But it does effectively put Apple in the position of deciding what sort of information customers can download on a media device with 90 percent of the tablet market.
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