OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/25891/Microsoft_details_improvements_to_Windows_Phone_Marketplace Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:23:23 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com More nipples less guns is what the world needs http://www.osnews.com/thread?516491 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516491 I really hate that american BS attitude towards naked people. As if seeing a naked human being messes with kids minds.

What we may need are rules against photoshopping the crap out of magazine/ad pictures, That might be a worthy discussion, but blatantly banning naked people is just stupid.

Typical american "think of the children" Über-BS. Tue, 01 May 2012 10:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kragil) Comments Who cares? http://www.osnews.com/thread?516492 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516492 You can get images of kissing men and women and cats and horses and whatever you like on the web. You don't need an app for that. The only function those apps have, is to serve ads and mine your phone for personal information, and add up on the total number of 'apps' available in the app store for corporate bragging rights.Edited 2012-05-01 10:48 UTC Tue, 01 May 2012 10:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (No it isnt) Comments Curation is worse than the disease http://www.osnews.com/thread?516497 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516497 Then code for Android.

Microsoft and Apple have the right to run their program prisons as they want.

However, remember it isn't just porn. It can be racism, sedition, or many other things they will ban depending on country. The United States is unique with its First Amendment freedom of speech.

Would you be so loud in your defense of (neo)Nazi apps to Germany, or to the USA? Tobacco apps? Methlab howtos? Tue, 01 May 2012 11:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tomz) Comments RE: Curation is worse than the disease http://www.osnews.com/thread?516499 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516499
Would you be so loud in your defense of (neo)Nazi apps to Germany, or to the USA? Tobacco apps? Methlab howtos?


Yes, because a few tits or kissing men is totally the same as nazism and meth. Totally.

As for tobacco - I don't care. If people want to smoke, let them. It's their body, not mine or the state's. Tue, 01 May 2012 11:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments RE: Curation is worse than the disease http://www.osnews.com/thread?516500 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516500
The United States is unique with its First Amendment freedom of speech.

Yeah, because no other country on Earth gives freedom of speech. God be blessed to have given humanity this single beacon of freedom in this barbaric world.

Never heard of the universal declaration of human rights - article 19 in particular -, eh? Tue, 01 May 2012 12:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Radio) Comments RE: Curation is worse than the disease http://www.osnews.com/thread?516505 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516505 I've owned a Windows Phone for some time now, and the market place has become ridden with stupid sexy woman apps and apps that use the name of others, such as netflix when they don't provide netflix streaming.

I hope Microsoft do clear up the mess that has been created. However, I also think it should be a free market and have an option to opt-in to the market place to download at least the adult apps.

The trade mark name issue is something that is more a legal matter (via company) rather then a 'who must not see' matter. Tue, 01 May 2012 13:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sagum) Comments RE[2]: Curation is worse than the disease http://www.osnews.com/thread?516508 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516508 In most countries, freedom of speech has lower protection than in the US. European countries for example often censor political speech. In many parts of Asia and South America, press freedom is additionally suffering from restrictions. And don't get me started on Africa. Tue, 01 May 2012 13:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chithanh) Comments RE[3]: Curation is worse than the disease http://www.osnews.com/thread?516526 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516526 Most other countries, perhaps. He said the U.S. was unique, meaning no other country enjoys the same freedom of speech, which is patently untrue. The U.S. has a long tradition for state censorship (Hays code and McCarthyism, for instance), and ranks poorly on press freedom at the moment. But as long as people are living in a nationalist delusion of being #1 by default, not much will be done about that, of course. Tue, 01 May 2012 15:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (No it isnt) Comments RE[3]: Curation is worse than the disease http://www.osnews.com/thread?516544 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516544
European countries for example often censor political speech.


Citation, please. Tue, 01 May 2012 16:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sodki) Comments Comment by M.Onty http://www.osnews.com/thread?516555 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516555
I wonder if two kissing men are considered to be "sexually suggestive", "provocative", "racy", or "inappropriate" by American standards.


Yes. Tue, 01 May 2012 18:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (M.Onty) Comments RE[3]: Curation is worse than the disease http://www.osnews.com/thread?516578 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516578
In most countries, freedom of speech has lower protection than in the US. European countries for example often censor political speech.

And yet, US is far from the most free countries. And a lot of those evil European countries you mention are _more_ free. Tue, 01 May 2012 20:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Fergy) Comments RE: More nipples less guns is what the world needs http://www.osnews.com/thread?516663 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516663 The ultimate goal of puritan* Americans is that all children can spend their childhood without ever seeing a female breast.

* (I believe one can't set an overall judgement on a country as large as this)Edited 2012-05-02 07:18 UTC Wed, 02 May 2012 07:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Neolander) Comments RE[4]: Curation is worse than the disease http://www.osnews.com/thread?516742 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516742 I don't say that US citizens have more freedom in total.

But there exist only few countries in the world who protect freedom of speech as vigorously (e.g. Canada). This is also true for freedom of religion.

In other regards (human rights, ...) I agree that there exist European countries who do better. Wed, 02 May 2012 15:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chithanh) Comments RE[4]: Curation is worse than the disease http://www.osnews.com/thread?516744 http://www.osnews.com/thread?516744 One high-profile example where US and European views on freedom of speech collided was the Yahoo! case in France, where the criminal code forbids dissemination and public display of certain (mostly Nazi) political symbols:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LICRA_v._Yahoo!

Other European countries have similar legislation which classifies certain political views as extremist and restricts their expression.

Note that I don't say that this is necessarily a bad thing. It is just that these countries have other values that they hold in higher regard than freedom of speech. Wed, 02 May 2012 15:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chithanh) Comments