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[Therese Godefroy]

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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.84 -->
+<title>Proprietary Jails - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+ <!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Proprietary Jails</h2>
+
+<p><a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other examples of proprietary 
malware</a></p>
+
+<p>Nonfree (proprietary) software is very often malware (designed to
+mistreat the user). Nonfree software is controlled by its developers,
+which puts them in a position of power over the users; <a
+href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">that is the
+basic injustice</a>. The developers often exercise that power to the
+detriment of the users they ought to serve.</p>
+
+<p>Here are examples of proprietary systems that are
+<em>jails</em>: they do not allow the user to freely install
+applications.  The <a href="http://i.imgur.com/ZRViDum.jpg";>image of
+the iPrison</a> illustrates this issue.</p>
+<!-- embed http://i.imgur.com/ZRViDum.jpg here -->
+<!-- Linking to it. Not possible to embed due to licensing. See RT #887471 -->
+
+<p>These systems are platforms for censorship imposed by the company
+that owns the system.  Selling products designed as platforms for a
+company to impose censorship ought to be forbidden by law, but it
+isn't.</p>
+
+<p class="c">
+   <a href="#apple">Apple&nbsp;jails</a> |
+   <a href="#microsoft">Microsoft&nbsp;jails</a> |
+   <a href="#consoles">Game consoles</a>
+</p>
+
+<h3 id="apple">Apple jails</h3>
+
+<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>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>. While this is a crack in the prison walls, it is not
+big enough to mean that the iThings are no longer jails.</p>
+
+<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&amp;emc=rss&amp;_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&hellip;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 &ldquo;problem&rdquo;, 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 &ldquo;Jail&rdquo;: <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 &ldquo;mobile devices&rdquo; 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>
+
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.84 -->
+<title>Proprietary Censorship - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+ <!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-censorship.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Proprietary Censorship</h2>
+
+<p>Nonfree (proprietary) software is very often malware (designed to
+mistreat the user). Nonfree software is controlled by its developers,
+which puts them in a position of power over the users; <a
+href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">that is the
+basic injustice</a>. The developers often exercise that power to the
+detriment of the users they ought to serve.</p>
+
+<p>Here are examples of proprietary systems that impose censorship on
+what their users can access. We have a <a
+href="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html">separate
+list of proprietary systems that censor installation</a> of
+application programs (we call them &ldquo;jails&rdquo;.)</p>
+
+<p>Selling products designed as platforms for a
+company to impose censorship ought to be forbidden by law, but it
+isn't.</p>
+
+<p class="c">
+   <a href="#apple">Apple&nbsp;products</a> |
+   <a href="#google">Google&nbsp;products</a> |
+   <a href="#other">Other</a>
+</p>
+
+<h3 id="apple">Apple products</h3>
+
+<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&amp;emc=rss&amp;_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&hellip;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 &ldquo;problem&rdquo;, 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="google">Google products</h3>
+
+<ul>
+  <li><p>Google <a
+      
href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2017/0316/Google-Family-Link-gives-parents-a-way-to-monitor-preteens-accounts";>
+      offers censorship software</a>, ostensibly for parents to put into
+      their children's computers.</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 &ldquo;interference&rdquo; 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>Chrome <a
+      href="https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6261569?hl=en";>
+      censors downloads of software</a>.</p>
+    <p>Helping users avoid malicious software downloads is useful,
+      but forcibly stopping them is wrong.</p>
+  </li>
+
+  <li>
+    <p>Chrome, on Windows, now <a
+      
href="https://thenextweb.com/google/2014/05/27/google-starts-blocking-extensions-chrome-web-store-windows-users-disables-installed-ones/";>
+      censors extensions</a>.</p>
+    <p>Google said it would <a
+      href="/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html#chrome-erase-addons">
+      force-delete unauthorized extensions</a>.</p>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="other">Other</h3>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>
+    <p>The <a
+      
href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendos-new-3ds-charges-30-cents-to-remove-an-in/1100-6421996/";>
+      Nintendo 3DS</a> censors web browsing; it is possible to turn off
+      the censorship, but that requires identifying oneself to pay, which
+      is a form of surveillance.</p>
+    </li>
+</ul>
+
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
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