Porn Will Be Blocked from All Mac Browsers

May 21 2010, 12:26pm

Steve Jobs: Starting this summer, porn will be blocked from all Mac browsers. If you want smut, use Windows. Wow. Jobs just raised this to a whole new level. Obviously there is a massive competitive angle to this. But I’m in favor of anything that ultimately ends up destigmatizing porn (the term used in this excellent article by Mary Eberstadt). There’s also an encouraging example here of free-enterprise, cultural-change dynamics done apart from governmental intervention. As James Stoner observed in a recent article on this: One can commend Steve Jobs for steadfastly refusing to allow Apple to become a platform for easy access to pornography, and commend him as well for showing that this can be done through determined business leadership, without recourse to government regulation that can threaten legitimate freedom and impose its own social costs. HT: Darrin Patrick