Apple under fire for approving ‘gay cure’ app

This highlights the problem with Apple's decision to play the part of the gatekeeper in their app store, and seriously calls into question their claim of not allowing offensive content.<p>Apple does need to be careful here - the GLBT population tends to skew towards Apple products, at least based on my experience, and I doubt they want to alienate this segment of their user base.

I went and looked this up on the App Store. The title of the app is "Exodus International." The categories in the bottom menu are "Home", "Latest News", "Events", "Video", and "More." The "More" section includes links to Twitter, Facebook, testimonials, podcasts, a blog, FAQs, some kind of question-answer page, a fact sheet, and "featured resources."<p>Presumably somewhere in there is the video or text that talks about curing homosexuality, but this app appears to fall into the category of restating whatever happens to be available on the publisher's website...kind of like ESPN or my bank. It's not a single-purpose issue app like the Manhattan Declaration app that was rejected.

Great. First they were under fire for censoring apps, now they're taking heat for not censoring apps.

Why is this offensive content? I'm all for gay rights and know a few men and women with homosexual inclinations (and I'm not bothered by it one bit), BUT freedom of expression is as much a right as the ability to choose your own religion or sexual inclination. This app probably provides valuable content to someone out there, and as such should be permitted to do so.<p>I'd be more worried of an Apple that blocks all apps that deal with content they don't agree with than an Apple that allows apps that might might strike the activist nerve in the sector of the population that loves to throw rocks and close streets to protest whatever they perceive to be a threat against affirmative action.

Someone get to work on creating an app to cure people of their heterosexuality through the use of pics of hot guys and alcohol.

Trying to 'cure' gay people and recruit them into a religious organization and culture is not as offensive to me as the practice of a central big-brother type authorizing and deleting programs on a computer that I own.<p>If we don't fight this sort of thing one day we will wake up and all computers will be like cable TV. you can choose between high-quality stimulating channels, or "paths", but try to do something yourself, and you need millions of dollars to penetrate the red tape and get your application presented to more than a few people.