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defrogITEM [via Violet Blue]: Apple demonstrates “Ping”, its new social network for iTunes that lets you connect directly with your favorite artists via their Twitter streams – and censor them if they talk about sex and gay stuff like Prop 8.
At least if you go by the promotional shot featuring Lady Gaga.
According to ReadWriteWeb, Apple’s version of Gaga’s Twitter timeline was edited to leave out tweets referring to Prop 8 (which Gaga is clearly against) and manwhores.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone, of course. This is the same company whose iBookstore can’t deal with references to sperm whales.
Still, I’m sure there’s a completely plausible explanation for all this. Maybe the editing was just for the promo shot, and the actual live Ping version may run uncensored.
I would hope so anyway. Because otherwise, it looks like yet another Apple service I won’t bother to use on account of I’m a grown person who can talk about sex without blushing like a schoolgirl.
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At least if you go by the promotional shot featuring Lady Gaga.
According to ReadWriteWeb, Apple’s version of Gaga’s Twitter timeline was edited to leave out tweets referring to Prop 8 (which Gaga is clearly against) and manwhores.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone, of course. This is the same company whose iBookstore can’t deal with references to sperm whales.
Still, I’m sure there’s a completely plausible explanation for all this. Maybe the editing was just for the promo shot, and the actual live Ping version may run uncensored.
I would hope so anyway. Because otherwise, it looks like yet another Apple service I won’t bother to use on account of I’m a grown person who can talk about sex without blushing like a schoolgirl.
Leave it in,
This is dF
