{"id":303,"date":"2010-09-09T17:43:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T22:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juggleware.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2010-09-09T17:43:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T22:43:52","slug":"apple-only-professional-satirists-can-make-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juggleware.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/apple-only-professional-satirists-can-make-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple: Only “professional” satirists can make fun."},"content":{"rendered":"

Well the Freedom Time<\/a> controversy has long passed from my mind, except when some other story pops up that reminds me.<\/p>\n

Today I had the chance to read Apple’s new App Store Approval Guidelines (registered developers can read them here<\/a>), and by “new” I mean brand new as it’s essentially the first time they’ve posted them in full, since most of these more specific rules were known to developers previously only by osmosis, trial-and-error, or consultation with mystics.<\/p>\n

It’s great to see they’ve revealed the 5MB per 5 minute rule for streaming media, something we found out by trial-and-error but was conveyed by us by a helpful App Store review team member, but it’s a bit disheartening to see the rule that prohibited us from making light fun of The Man Who Clears Brush put into relief:<\/p>\n

14. Personal attacks
\n14.1 Any app that is defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or likely to place the targeted individual or group in harms way will be rejected
\n14.2 Professional political satirists and humorists are exempt from the ban on offensive or mean-spirited commentary<\/p>\n

So this is how the Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist’s app rejection reversal is justified, officially in the rules, while “amateur” satirists like yours truly are by definition, “defamatory, offensive and mean-spirited.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well the Freedom Time controversy has long passed from my mind, except when some other story pops up that reminds me. Today I had the chance to read Apple’s new App Store Approval Guidelines (registered developers can read them here), … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,6],"tags":[15,20,17,18,23,113,22,11],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-store-iphone-dev","category-freedomtime","tag-app-store","tag-apple","tag-censor","tag-defamatory","tag-freedom-time","tag-iphone-dev","tag-rejected","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juggleware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juggleware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juggleware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juggleware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juggleware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.juggleware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/www.juggleware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juggleware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juggleware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juggleware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}