Do you think its ok that apple censors its own forums?

I just read an article according to which Apple Inc. has been censoring threads critisizing the problems of the new iPhone on its forums. Do you think what Apple is doing is OK?

link to the article here: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/07/apple-censors-threads-on-negative-consumer-reports-iphone-4-test/

asked Jul 14 '10 at 14:32

Makke93
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edited Jul 14 '10 at 14:46

I read that too. I guess that's one way to do damage control?! LOL!!!

(Jul 14 '10 at 14:47) r0bErT4u

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0	Censorship is never a good thing. I think that spam and things like that isnt' okay and should be removed but I don't think that people who aren't happy about something or disagree with Apple should be censored. answered Jul 14 '10 at 17:29 Paddis 41●2

0	It's their website and they can do whatever they want on it. Not trying to be a fanboy or anything, but any website can do what they want since it is their website. answered Jul 14 '10 at 16:08 catchatyou 20.7k●89●165●383

I'm not sure how true this is, I've been on Apple's boards for a long time and they've never censored this kind of thing, they haven't even censor people talking about jailbreaking or when people were asking about getting the iPhone SDK working on PPC Macs. I've seen far worse things than iPhone 4 complaints and woes.

Now if it's an advertisement of some kind, or simply to spread links, they do knock those down. It's a discussion board for support / help, that's its point.

answered Jul 14 '10 at 16:47

Granit
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edited Jul 14 '10 at 16:48

0	I don't think that it is okay, but its their website and they can do what they want to it. answered Jul 14 '10 at 17:31 TheTechDude 16.8k●40●94●298

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