Apple blocks Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist from iStore for "ridiculing public figures"

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Translation… Steve didn’t find this funny. Steve knows what’s good for you; it makes the platform run slower and less stable. That is all, citizen.

Laura sez, “Mark Fiore just won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning for his animated works appearing on SFGate.com. I spoke with Fiore about what’s next for him, and he said he’d like to take his freelance shop mobile. Only problem: Apple denied his iPhone app because it ‘ridicules public figures,’ a violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. If he can get his app past the Apple satire police, he should be good to go.”