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Apple bans irony and free speech

We just don't get it
Apple has pulled the plug on an iPhone application which offered an RSS feed to the free speech outfit the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
It seems Jobs' Mob looked at the application which was perfectly innocent but noticed that a blog on the site linked to a Downfall parody. The movie charts Adolf Hitler's last days in his bunker and the parody shows Hitler as an furious movie executive and demanding takedown notices be sent to everyone using his clips for parody.
Apple rejected the application because it contained "objectionable content" and removed it from the Application Store. Apple got into all sorts of hot water when it first banned and then re-instated a farting application at the store. It seems that while it gets farting jokes the subtleties of irony and the niceties of Free
Speech sale over Jobs' Mob higher than the International Space Station.