Apple bans sale of comic with homosexual content

[gremcint]

This actually was not apple's fault see link in later post.

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/04/0...anned-by-apple
this is not the original article I read and doesn't show the images

Ok so today I saw an article about how Apple has banned the sale of a comic book that contains depictions of gay sex and people accusing them of homophobism. The article showed the images themselves and out of an entire comic page they occupied the space of a postage stamp, they were on a tv monitor in the story. Said tv monitor is someone's head. Further the article pointed out that the comic series has had rather graphic sexual content before and no issue was raised. A lot of times these days I find articles leave out a lot of required details so before making my judgement I decided to read the first few issues of this comic (Saga) to see how true the claims were and how more or less graphic these scenes were. So for the record I, someone who does not like apple, decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and did direct research. Here are the results of my research:
1. Saga is fucked up.
2. Saga is fucked up.
3. Saga is fucked up.
4. Saga is fucked up.
5. no seriously there's one page if I posted it here I'd probably get banned from facebook
6. Apple has no legs to stand on here at all,
There is very graphic content, and the content of the 12th issue in question doesn't hold a candle to what came before, though in the four issues I read I did not see any homosexual sex. I didn't really read the issues just flipped through the pages (the arguement isn't about the writing)
Apple can't even claim they weren't aware of the series before because they have only banned this one issue and not the whole series.

[HYHYBT]

I don't like the idea of banning content to begin with, nor of treating homosexual depictions worse than equivalent heterosexual ones, but combining a policy against all such material with "but they've let us do worse before" doesn't, to me, lead to the conclusion they want. Logically, it should lead to the entire series being removed, not to this issue being allowed.

[Kelmon]

My guess would be that while there weren't enough complaints from readers because of heterosexual content, there were too many complaints from homophobes aginst this particual issue - so they looked it over and decided to ban the issue they recieved complaints over.

To be fair though, I don't have a problem with anyone not wanting to see homosexual sex acts in their otherwise heterosexual-oriented adult media (or the other way around). I wouldn't want that either. But if you don't like it, you can simply stop reading/watching it, or maybe even demand your money back if it was falsely advertised, but this doesn't give you the right to get it banned for everyone else.

[s_stabeler]

to be fair, I think Apple generally bans explicit content no matter what. On the other hand, they really should have removed the entire comic if that is why it was removed.

[PepperElf]

It wasn't Apple who did it

when you posted that link did it have the update in it?

according to the link, Apple didn't ban it. Comixology misinterpreted Apple's rules on explicit material and was the one who blocked #12. They have since apologized.

And... it'll be available soon.

[HYHYBT]

That certainly makes a difference.

[gremcint]

Ok, that is very different, and that is exactly why I tried to do more research. I stand by my stance that saga is fucked up though.

[s_stabeler]

um, Comixology really did it? they've got risque comics, so why not simply recategorise the comic?