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Porn can never be washed from the Web; it can just be driven into stealth mode. And it’s no different on the mobile Web. That’s why Apple’s efforts to keep porn off the iPhone is turning into a never-ending, ever more complex campaign.Apple AAPL can block as many porn-oriented apps as it wants. But the problem is that browsers are themselves apps that open a window onto the entire Web itself. Charles Rodriguez, president of iHustleApps, thought he could use a browser-based app as an end-run around Apple’s porn restrictions and introduced forChan, a browser app designed for imageboards that host nasty pics.As Krapps.com noted, Apple not only shut him down, it revoked his license to sell apps in its store and deleted the other 224 apps he sold there. That prompted a sharp and clever rebuke from Gizmodo, which argued that Apple’s logic meant it needed to ban Microsoft’s Bing app as well as its own Safari browser from the iPhone.

via Apple Hates Porn. But Porn Loves the iPhone. | The Big Money.

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