Is Apple Censoring Gay Graphic Novels

If you want to look at a Gay-themed graphic novel on your iPad, you may have to look at a bunch of blocked screens.

I just saw this on JMG and I wonder what's really going on here?

Gizmodo reports:

In the case of a graphic novel of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, the objectionable nature of the content appears to be simply that two men were kissing.
Can only be downloaded like this:

That's after you've already told Apple that you're 17 or older. Blacking out seven consecutive panels of a graphic novel makes that novel basically unreadable.

However, in straight graphic novels, you can see a whole lot more before the censors sets in. This is a concern because there many Gay comics and graphic novels this censoring could affect. I can't help but to think about Class Comics or other gay themed comics with sexual content. Will their comics be covered in black boxes too?

This type of censoring could turn folks off from the iPad or anything Apple does. And to be real, it's insulting to see our comics or stories hidden behind black boxes, when you can see straight sex on a hood of a car in colorful and bright pixels.

New Apple: iPad

If you want a giant iPod, you are in luck.

Here is the iPad.

Steve Jobs demonstrated some of the features of the iPad, which he said included browsing the internet, playing games, listening to music and watching high-definition video. He also showed off the virtual keyboard on the machine and said Apple's iTunes music store was built into the iPad.

The iPad will come with 16, 32 or 64-gigabytes of flash memory. Jobs also said the device would have 10 hours of battery life.

It's cute, but I'll get my new LV bag first.


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