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Congressional caricatures on the App Store: The nays have it
Let's face it, America: if you're looking for "obscene, pornographic or defamatory" content, you can pretty much count on the US Congress to satisfy your jones. Put those representatives into cartoon bobble-head form, however, and stack them up with contact and district info in a handy-dandy iPhone app... well, that's just not cricket, according to the App Store review team.Cartoonist & MAD magazine contributor Tom Richmond was commissioned to produce said caricatures for the iPhone app in question, and unfortunately they've run afoul of clause 3.3.14 of the developer agreement, the 'Apple's reasonable judgment' rule regarding potentially objectionable content. Richmond is scratching his head trying to figure out what about his caricatures could possibly be considered reasonably offensive, compared to some of the other fine entertainment apps already gracing iPhones worldwide. Still, it's at least consistent with Apple's previous rejections of things that are funny.
On some level it's unsurprising that an app filled with congressional bobbleheads is finding it a bit of a slog getting through review; that's a lot of potential angry phone calls for Apple to take.
[That's Dennis Kucinich over there.]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Darren said 7:14AM on 11-10-2009
The real Dennis Kucinich doesn't actually look that good.
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dallasward007 said 8:28AM on 11-10-2009
So sex joke and pick up line apps are good, but not this?
I guess it would be bad to make fun of the people you likely will need to bribe [lobby] at some point.
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Jon said 8:30AM on 11-10-2009
Already gracing! Well now they're in China they need something to keep them there!
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Martin said 9:19AM on 11-10-2009
So, I was going to be a good internet Samaritan and downrank the spam that you see above. But what happened when I clicked on the red minus button? This bullshit.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=260qtt4&s=4
Not only is it a ridiculous ad, but you can't close it and it covers the entire page. I had to reload the page to get it to go away. I really hope this is a mistake and not something you're planning on doing from here on out.
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Michael Rose said 9:48AM on 11-10-2009
We hear you.
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colouroflight said 10:11AM on 11-10-2009
Yet another reason why living in the cloud and trusting a third-party with your data and applications is a bad idea.
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