Jobs has argued that he wants his portable computer devices to not sell or stock pornography.<\/p>\n
When a critic emailed him to say that this infringed his freedoms, Jobs emailed back and told him to buy a different type of computer.<\/p>\n
Steve Jobs is a fan of Bob Dylan. So one customer emailed him to ask how Dylan would feel about Jobs\u2019 restrictions of customers\u2019 freedoms.<\/p>\n
\u201cFreedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom. The times they are a changin\u2019 and some traditional PC folks feel their world is slipping away. It is.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want \u2018freedom from porn.\u2019 Porn is just fine! And I think my wife would agree.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIn the most revealing line, Steve Jobs dismissed the critic thus:\n
\u201cYou might care more about porn when you have kids.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pause for a moment and consider what the above emails represent.<\/p>\n
The CEO of one of the wealthiest, most successful international companies, responds to the email of a customer. Business prospers on the mantra \u201cThe customer is always right.\u201d Business wants the customers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n
But in this case, over the moral issue of pornography, Jobs is happy to tell customers to buy a different product. He argues that children and innocence ought to be preserved \u2013 and that trumps the dollar.<\/p>\n
Google (with their motto \u201cDon\u2019t be evil\u201d) rake in billions through pornography. Ranks of employees spend their time categorising and arranging advertising for pornography. (I know, I spent some time discussing the difficulties posed to a Christian who worked in their UK HQ) Pornography is huge business, yet here is the CEO of Apple telling the pornography businesses to take their dollars elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Now Steve Jobs cannot actually stop pornography being accessed on the devices he sells \u2013 indeed you can jailbreak a device and run any pirated software on it. Neither can he necessarily set the ethical bar as high as a Christian may want it \u2013 but what he is doing is significant and commendable. He is taking responsibility for doing what he can. He is trying to not profit from pornography. Those deeds are important for the sake of his own soul. Matthew 18:7 comes to mind: \u201cWoe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!\u201d<\/p>\n
For the souls of other people, his public statements are valuable in that they permit consumers to identify with and commend his resistance to pornography. Our generation is saturated in pornography; a public statement from Steve Jobs resisting that, encourages others to believe that the secular-liberal-capitalist agenda is not the only show in town. Jobs\u2019 comments are important for the manner in which they shape public cultural discourse.<\/p>\n
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