From the topless bathers on the French Riviera to the prostitutes in the windows of red-light districts in Hamburg and Amsterdam, Europeans have long demonstrated a more open approach to nudity than Americans. Could Apple's revolutionary iPad change even that? The daily topless "Bild girl" still smiles on the front page of Germany's best-selling Bild newspaper, and titillating images adorn the pages of weekly magazines such as Germany's Stern and Spiegel. European publishers have tried to take the "sex sells" formula for print success into the world of digital media apps. Steve Jobs holds the iPad Ryan Anson, AFP / Getty Images Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs holds the iPad in January. Apple has rules against nudity in apps for the device. Just don't do it on the iPad, says Steve Jobs. From German publishers' point of view, the Apple founder has morphed into a digital Ayatollah and is banning nudity -- from outright porn to photos of renegade nipples on the catwalks of Milan -- anywhere in the emerging new media world based on Apple's iPad tablet computer. Recently, Apple's cyber police removed Stern's gallery of nude photos and forced Bild to put some clothes on the "Bild girl." "Today they censor nipples, tomorrow it's editorial content," said a spokeswoman at Bild. Stern.de, the Web site of the German weekly magazine, has now installed what its CEO Chris Hasselbring calls an "erotic filter" to ensure that no content in violation of Apple's rules makes it onto the Stern app for the iPhone or iPad. But Hasselbring and other German publishers are not happy with the situation. "Apple has changed its business model to become a content provider but it doesn't understand what responsibility that new role carries," says Hasselbring. "A publisher must respect freedom of the press and they should not be the ones to decide which content is delivered to the consumer." The global magazine publishing industry greeted the launch of the iPad earlier this year with a sigh of relief, celebrating Jobs as the savior of the beleaguered industry. "The iPad has launched a new era in publishing," Mathias Doepfner, the CEO of Axel Springer Verlag, which publishes the Bild newspaper, said on the Charlie Rose show last month. "Every publisher should thank Steve Jobs every day." They might not be thanking him for long. Jobs' blitzkrieg against German nudity on his iPad could have far-reaching consequences for the publishing industry if he is allowed to dictate what content is allowed and what should be verboten. Writing in the New Yorker recently, media journalist Ken Auletta examined the long-term aims of Jobs, his arch-nemesis Jeff Bezos -- the Amazon founder and developer of the Kindle -- and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Auletta suggests that Jobs and Bezos want their devices and associated services to supplant the publishing industry as we now know it. Google has also taken a step in this direction with its massive digital library. Those developments could leave several big players out for a lock on distribution with substantial power over content, too. That is the more significant issue at stake behind Jobs' decision to nix the German nipples from Apple's app store: Is it good for a company like Apple to have so much power over determining what is good for the rest of us? Consumers are already voicing protest at censorship of content and intervention rights of some site operators. The BBC reported this week that Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales relinquished some of his site privileges after Wikipedia users complained that he deleted images from the site without first consulting users. In early April, Larry Sanger, the estranged Wikipedia co-founder, filed a complaint with the FBI that Wikipedia Commons was "knowingly distributing child pornography." The complaint prompted Wikipedia Commons to delete hundreds of images. The problem is that the censor robots at sites like Wikipedia or on the iPad still have a hard time telling whether a nude image is porn, harmless titillation, or an image with educational benefit for medical students, for example. For just that reason, Wikipedia had to go back and reinstall many of the images that it first took down and later determined were not porn after all. In the Book of Jobs, though, there seems to be no gray area. In an e-mail allegedly from Jobs that was published on the TechCrunch blog, Jobs dismissed his critics, saying: "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone." 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From the topless bathers on the French Riviera to the prostitutes in the windows of red-light districts in Hamburg and Amsterdam, Europeans have long demonstrated a more open approach to nudity than Americans. Could Apple's revolutionary iPad change even that? The daily topless "Bild girl" still smiles on the front page of Germany's best-selling Bild newspaper, and titillating images adorn the pages of weekly magazines such as Germany's Stern and Spiegel. European publishers have tried to take the "sex sells" formula for print success into the world of digital media apps. Steve Jobs holds the iPad Ryan Anson, AFP / Getty Images Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs holds the iPad in January. Apple has rules against nudity in apps for the device. Just don't do it on the iPad, says Steve Jobs. From German publishers' point of view, the Apple founder has morphed into a digital Ayatollah and is banning nudity -- from outright porn to photos of renegade nipples on the catwalks of Milan -- anywhere in the emerging new media world based on Apple's iPad tablet computer. Recently, Apple's cyber police removed Stern's gallery of nude photos and forced Bild to put some clothes on the "Bild girl." "Today they censor nipples, tomorrow it's editorial content," said a spokeswoman at Bild. Stern.de, the Web site of the German weekly magazine, has now installed what its CEO Chris Hasselbring calls an "erotic filter" to ensure that no content in violation of Apple's rules makes it onto the Stern app for the iPhone or iPad. But Hasselbring and other German publishers are not happy with the situation. "Apple has changed its business model to become a content provider but it doesn't understand what responsibility that new role carries," says Hasselbring. "A publisher must respect freedom of the press and they should not be the ones to decide which content is delivered to the consumer." The global magazine publishing industry greeted the launch of the iPad earlier this year with a sigh of relief, celebrating Jobs as the savior of the beleaguered industry. "The iPad has launched a new era in publishing," Mathias Doepfner, the CEO of Axel Springer Verlag, which publishes the Bild newspaper, said on the Charlie Rose show last month. "Every publisher should thank Steve Jobs every day." They might not be thanking him for long. Jobs' blitzkrieg against German nudity on his iPad could have far-reaching consequences for the publishing industry if he is allowed to dictate what content is allowed and what should be verboten. Writing in the New Yorker recently, media journalist Ken Auletta examined the long-term aims of Jobs, his arch-nemesis Jeff Bezos -- the Amazon founder and developer of the Kindle -- and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Auletta suggests that Jobs and Bezos want their devices and associated services to supplant the publishing industry as we now know it. Google has also taken a step in this direction with its massive digital library. Those developments could leave several big players out for a lock on distribution with substantial power over content, too. That is the more significant issue at stake behind Jobs' decision to nix the German nipples from Apple's app store: Is it good for a company like Apple to have so much power over determining what is good for the rest of us? Consumers are already voicing protest at censorship of content and intervention rights of some site operators. The BBC reported this week that Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales relinquished some of his site privileges after Wikipedia users complained that he deleted images from the site without first consulting users. In early April, Larry Sanger, the estranged Wikipedia co-founder, filed a complaint with the FBI that Wikipedia Commons was "knowingly distributing child pornography." The complaint prompted Wikipedia Commons to delete hundreds of images. The problem is that the censor robots at sites like Wikipedia or on the iPad still have a hard time telling whether a nude image is porn, harmless titillation, or an image with educational benefit for medical students, for example. For just that reason, Wikipedia had to go back and reinstall many of the images that it first took down and later determined were not porn after all. In the Book of Jobs, though, there seems to be no gray area. In an e-mail allegedly from Jobs that was published on the TechCrunch blog, Jobs dismissed his critics, saying: "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone." And for now, apparently, that includes the Bild girl.2010 dvd releases 2010 honda accord sedan magic las vegas feb 2010 2010 best places to launch a career 2010 plug in hybrid spybot antivirus 2010 vancouver island weather network bargain holiday package for a family in aug 2010 bloemfontein celtics fc 2010 cheerio contest why do we dream what we dream tpx exogrid 2010 download drivers for samsung ml-2010 2010 draft predictions 2011 rugby world cup jobs haiti map continent why is the sky blue boutiliers point 2010 tide table blogging tips for students california super lotto winning numbers for 01/30/2010 avatar games fortress fight 2 meda pafat 2010 ask restaurants locations weather forecast uk 14 days club penguin february catalog 2010 australia day 2010 fireworks tickets for most haunted live january 2010 mitch hedberg death photo ipad release date price zelander thank you cards mardi gras st louis 2010 billig sommerurlaub 2010 grammy awards performers 2010 2010 world cup kits new 2010 rap songs lotto 2010 photo 2010 disney dining plan restaurants weather london heathrow freedom music festival 2010 survival day 2010 belgrave avatar yourself free obama approval rating wiki dancing on ice skate off 2010 discovery cove tickets best price taylor swift tour dates 2010 what's on tv tonight london john richmond bags mens ringspun clothing facebook lite down the water rat in 2010 olympics death georgia how stuff works video conferencing ford fiesta rs 2010 2012 trailers u0026 video clips twitter search engine trak pak on 2010 mustang windows 7 starter torrent 2010 electronics beijing airport code hannah montana world tour 2010 2011 holidays thomas cook facebook emoticons new the wolfman 2010 villain ipod wiki world of wheels az 2010 women of faith 2010 schedule haiti earthquakes eminem calendar 2010 kingdom of heaven ufc 2010 undisputed wiki what's on tv today canada eastenders spoilers 2010 february what career to choose test cancun spring break 2010 events ringspun clothing sale rockness 2010 jon richard jewellery palindrome examples words google rush limbau jan 2010 how to get pregnant with a boy or girl nashville tuning electric blogger templates free seattle rock and roll marathon 2010 canadian holidays 2010 dave matthews band wrigley field 2010