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Therese Godefroy |
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www/proprietary proprietary-jails.html |
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Date: |
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 04:00:08 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/04/25 04:00:08
Modified files:
proprietary : proprietary-jails.html
Log message:
Remove an irrelevant item and reorganize (RT #1284899).
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.22&r2=1.23
Patches:
Index: proprietary-jails.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html,v
retrieving revision 1.22
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -b -r1.22 -r1.23
--- proprietary-jails.html 24 Apr 2018 19:33:59 -0000 1.22
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@@ -31,178 +31,151 @@
company to impose censorship ought to be forbidden by law, but it
isn't.</p>
-<ul>
-
-<li>
-<p>Apple <a
-href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html";>
-deleted several VPNs from its app store for China</a>,
-thus using its own censorship power to strengthen that of the Chinese
-government.
+<p class="c">
+ <a href="#apple">Apple jails</a> |
+ <a href="#microsoft">Microsoft jails</a> |
+ <a href="#consoles">Game consoles</a>
</p>
-</li>
-<li>
-<p>Apple is <a
-href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/iranian-hardliners-want-isolated-internet";>
-censoring apps for the US government too</a>. Specifically, it is deleting
-apps developed by Iranians.
-</p>
+<h3 id="apple">Apple jails</h3>
-<p>The root of these wrongs are in Apple.
-If Apple had not designed the iMonsters to let Apple censor
-applications,
-Apple would not have had the power to stop users from installing
-whatever kind of apps.</p>
-</li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Windows 10 S ought to be called Windows 10 J, for “Jail”:
- <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/03/windows-10-s-microsoft-faster-pc-comparison";>only
programs from the Windows Store can be
- downloaded and executed</a>.</p>
-
- <p>If the history of iOS as a jail is any indication, Windows 10 J
- will be no better.</p>
-
- </li>
-
- <li><p>Google Chrome, running on Windows, <a
href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/06/google-chrome-listening-in-to-your-room-shows-the-importance-of-privacy-defense-in-depth/";>is
a jail</a>.</p>
- </li>
-
-<li><p>
-Apple used its censorship system to enforce Russian
-surveillance <a
-href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/technology/linkedin-blocked-in-russia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0";>
-by blocking distribution of the LinkedIn app in Russia</a>.</p>
-
-<p>This is ironic because LinkedIn is a surveillance system
-itself. While subjecting its users to its own surveillance, it tries
-to protect its users from Russian surveillance, and is therefore
-subject to Russian censorship.</p>
-
-<p>However, the point here is the wrong of Apple's censorship of
-apps.</p>
-</li>
-
- <li><p>
-Apple used its censorship system to enforce
-China's censorship <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/05/apple-removes-new-york-times-app-in-china";>by
-blocking distribution of the New York Times app</a>.</p></li>
-
- <li><p>
-Apple censors
-games, <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/apple-says-game-about-palestinian-child-isnt-a-game";>banning
-some games from the cr…app store</a> because of which political
-points they suggest. Some political points are apparently considered
-acceptable.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li><p>
-Apple <a href="http://ifixit.org/blog/7401/ifixit-app-pulled/";>
-banned a program from the App Store</a> because its developers
-committed the enormity of disassembling some iThings.
-</p></li>
-
-<li><p>
-Apple rejected an app that displayed the locations of US drone
-assassinations, giving various excuses. Each time the developers
-fixed one “problem”, Apple complained about another.
-After the fifth rejection,
-Apple <a
href="http://mashable.com/2014/02/07/apple-app-tracks-drone-strikes/";>admitted
-it was censoring the app based on the subject matter</a>.
-</p></li>
-
-<li><p>
-As of 2015, Apple <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/apple-anti-choice-tendencies-showing-in-app-store-reproductive-rights";>systematically
bans apps that endorse abortion
-rights or would help women find abortions</a>.</p>
-
-<p>
-This particular political slant <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/siri-abortion-apple-unintenional-omissions";>
-affects other Apple services</a>.
-</p></li>
-
-<li><p>
-<a
-href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/03/google-pulls-ad-blocking-app-for-samsung-phones";>Google
-censored installation of Samsung's ad-blocker,</a> saying that
-blocking ads is “interference” with the sites that
-advertise (and surveil users through ads).</p>
-
-<p>The ad-blocker is proprietary software, just like the program (Google
-Play) that Google used to deny access to install it. Using a nonfree program
-gives the owner power over you, and Google has exercised that power.</p>
-
-<p>Google's censorship, unlike that of Apple and Microsoft, is not total:
-Android allows users to install apps in other ways. You can install
-free programs from f-droid.org.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p><a
href="http://boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-yo.html";>
-iOS, the operating system of the Apple iThings, is the prototype of a
-jail.</a> It was Apple that introduced the practice of designing
-general purposes computers with censorship of application
+<p><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IOS_jailbreaking&oldid=835861046";>
+iOS, the operating system of the Apple iThings, is the prototype
+of a jail</a>. It was Apple that introduced the practice of
+designing general purposes computers with censorship of application
programs.</p>
-<p>Apple used this censorship power in 2014
-to <a
href="http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/apple-yanks-last-remaining-bit.html";>
-ban all bitcoin apps</a> for the iThings for a time. It
-also <a
href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/apple-removes-game-about-growing-marijuana-from-app-store/1100-6419864/";>banned
-a game about growing marijuana</a>, while permitting games about other
-crimes such as killing people. Perhaps Apple considers killing more
-acceptable than marijuana.</p>
-
-<p>Here is an article about
-the <a
href="http://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2008/03/07/code-signing-and-you/";>code
-signing</a> that the iThings use to lock up the user.</p>
+<p>Here is an article about the <a
+href="http://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2008/03/07/code-signing-and-you/";>
+code signing</a> that the iThings use to lock up the user.</p>
<p>Curiously, Apple is beginning to allow limited passage through the
walls of the iThing jail: users can now install apps built from
source code, provided the source code is written in Swift. Users
-cannot do this freely because they are required to identify themselves.
-<a href="https://developer.apple.com/xcode/";>Here are details.</a></p>
+cannot do this freely because they are required to identify
+themselves. <a href="https://developer.apple.com/xcode/";>Here
+are details</a>. While this is a crack in the prison walls, it is not
+big enough to mean that the iThings are no longer jails.</p>
-<p>While this is a crack in the prison walls, it is not big enough to
-mean that the iThings are no longer jails.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>Apple has banned iThing applications that show the confederate flag.
-<a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/apple-confederate-flag_n_7663754.html";>
-Not only those that use it as a symbol of racism</a>, but even strategic
-games that use it to represent confederate army units fighting in the
-Civil War.</p>
-
-<p>This ludicrous rigidity illustrates the point that Apple should not be
-allowed to censor apps. Even if Apple carried out this act of
-censorship with some care, it would still be wrong. Whether racism is
-bad, whether educating people about drone attacks is bad, are not the
-real issue. Apple should not have the power to impose its views about
-either of these questions, or any other.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
- <p>
- <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/11/papers-please-game-ipad-nude-body-scans";>More
- examples of Apple's arbitrary and inconsistent censorship</a>.
- </p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p><a
-href="http://www.itworld.com/article/2832657/operating-systems/microsoft-metro-app-store-lock-down.html";>Windows
8 on “mobile devices” is a jail.</a></p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>Game consoles are jails, too: no game can run on the console unless
-the console's manufacturer has authorized it. Alas, I can't find a
-article to cite as a reference for this fact. Please inform us if you
-know of one.
-</p>
-</li>
+<h4>Examples of censorship by Apple jails</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Apple <a
+
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html";>
+ deleted several VPNs from its app store for China</a>, thus using
+ its own censorship power to strengthen that of the Chinese
+ government.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Apple is <a
+
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/iranian-hardliners-want-isolated-internet";>
+ censoring apps for the US government too</a>. Specifically, it
+ is deleting apps developed by Iranians.</p>
+ <p>The root of these wrongs are in Apple. If Apple had not designed
+ the iMonsters to let Apple censor applications, Apple would not have
+ had the power to stop users from installing whatever kind of apps.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Apple used its censorship system to enforce Russian surveillance <a
+
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/technology/linkedin-blocked-in-russia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0";>
+ by blocking distribution of the LinkedIn app in Russia</a>.</p>
+ <p>This is ironic because LinkedIn is a surveillance system itself.
+ While subjecting its users to its own surveillance, it tries to
+ protect its users from Russian surveillance, and is therefore
+ subject to Russian censorship.</p>
+ <p>However, the point here is the wrong of Apple's censorship of
+ apps.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Apple used its censorship system to enforce China's censorship <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/05/apple-removes-new-york-times-app-in-china";>
+ by blocking distribution of the New York Times app</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Apple censors games, <a
+
href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/apple-says-game-about-palestinian-child-isnt-a-game";>
+ banning some games from the cr…app store</a> because of which
+ political points they suggest. Some political points are apparently
+ considered acceptable.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Apple <a href="http://ifixit.org/blog/7401/ifixit-app-pulled/";>
+ banned a program from the App Store</a> because its developers
+ committed the enormity of disassembling some iThings.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>As of 2015, Apple <a
+
href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/apple-anti-choice-tendencies-showing-in-app-store-reproductive-rights";>
+ systematically bans apps that endorse abortion rights or would help
+ women find abortions</a>.</p>
+ <p>This particular political slant <a
+
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/siri-abortion-apple-unintenional-omissions";>
+ affects other Apple services</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Apple has banned iThing applications that show the confederate flag.
+ <a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/apple-confederate-flag_n_7663754.html";>
+ Not only those that use it as a symbol of racism</a>, but even
+ strategic games that use it to represent confederate army units
+ fighting in the Civil War.</p>
+ <p>This ludicrous rigidity illustrates the point that Apple should not
+ be allowed to censor apps. Even if Apple carried out this act of
+ censorship with some care, it would still be wrong. Whether racism
+ is bad, whether educating people about drone attacks is bad, are not
+ the real issue. Apple should not have the power to impose its views
+ about either of these questions, or any other.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Apple rejected an app that displayed the locations of US drone
+ assassinations, giving various excuses. Each time the developers
+ fixed one “problem”, Apple complained about another.
+ After the fifth rejection, Apple <a
+ href="http://mashable.com/2014/02/07/apple-app-tracks-drone-strikes/";>
+ admitted it was censoring the app based on the subject
+ matter</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Apple used this censorship power in 2014 to <a
+
href="http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/apple-yanks-last-remaining-bit.html";>
+ ban all bitcoin apps</a> for the iThings for a time. It also <a
+
href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/apple-removes-game-about-growing-marijuana-from-app-store/1100-6419864/";>
+ banned a game about growing marijuana</a>, while permitting games
+ about other crimes such as killing people. Perhaps Apple considers
+ killing more acceptable than marijuana.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/11/papers-please-game-ipad-nude-body-scans";>
+ More examples of Apple's arbitrary and inconsistent censorship</a>.</p>
+ </li>
</ul>
+<h3 id="microsoft">Microsoft jails</h3>
+
+<p>Windows 10 S ought to be called Windows 10 J, for “Jail”: <a
+href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/03/windows-10-s-microsoft-faster-pc-comparison";>
+only programs from the Windows Store can be downloaded and
+executed</a>. If the history of iOS as a jail is any indication,
+Windows 10 J will be no better.</p>
+
+<p><a
href="http://www.itworld.com/article/2832657/operating-systems/microsoft-metro-app-store-lock-down.html";>
+Windows 8 on “mobile devices” is a jail</a>.</p>
+
+<h3 id="consoles">Game consoles</h3>
+
+<p>No game can run on the console unless the console's manufacturer
+has authorized it. Alas, I can't find a article to cite as a reference
+for this fact. Please inform us if you know of one.</p>
+
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<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2018/04/24 19:33:59 $
+$Date: 2018/04/25 08:00:07 $
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