But just think of the children!!!

Seriously, they may have to put something in place to verify age. Having an iTMS account, with a credit card as a payment vehicle, may be one way. I don't think those below a certain age can get a credit card, at least not easily.

Come on Apple.

Don't parent me.

Require an adult .mac account if you need to, but don't limit me.

This is the United States of America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Censorship, which is an action by government to completely stop certain kinds of speech, very rarely happens here.

At the same time, Apple is not required by any law or any ethical reasoning to provide links to podcasts that feature pornography, or KKK hate speech for that matter. Those podcasts can still be accessed through iTunes, and even subscribed to through iTunes, without Apple having to provide the links. Hustler is a legal purchase in the United States, but grocery stores are not required to sell it, nor are they censoring for not selling it.

Greg Lawhorn
"The guarantee of freedom of speech does include an audience."

Just because it's not listed in iTunes doesn't mean you can't get it. Companies like Apple need to think about a broad segment of the population. There is absolutely no reason why they should risk bad press and public sentiment to advertise someone elses' product.
The whole idea here is to convert people to iTunes and iPod ergo Apple products. Apple doesn't make any money linking podcasts (I'd imagine). It's just a marketing tool. And you wouldn't market using questionable material would you?

Is that a joke or what? Ask that to the rest of the world living outside "America"'s bubble...

They have the icon on there just like the explict music on the iTMS. I think they should keep all the podcasts there but force them to sign on to an iTMS just to do some age checking ... so a kid doesn't 'accidently' download a sex themed podcast and have his mom sue Apple.

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Is that a joke or what? Ask that to the rest of the world living outside "America"'s bubble...

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This is the United States of America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Censorship, which is an action by government to completely stop certain kinds of speech, very rarely happens here.

<roflol>

Yeah, right. If that were true, then the FDA wouldn't be able to raid book publishers and seize and burn cookbooks merely for mentioning the fact that stevia can be used as a sweetener. Just one tiny example of draconian censorship in the good ol' US of A.

It often doesn't make headlines because, well, "this is the land of the free," afterall, don't you know? As Mark Twain said, in America free speech is confined to the dead.

It'd be nice if there was a distinction between "explicit" programming that is basically just a light level of F and S profanity, vs. the "explicit" programming that is much more sexually oriented.

I think that's an important distinction and I'd hope that all the "explicit" shows aren't banned.

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It'd be nice if there was a distinction between "explicit" programming that is basically just a light level of F and S profanity, vs. the "explicit" programming that is much more sexually oriented.

I think that's an important distinction and I'd hope that all the "explicit" shows aren't banned.

They should just adopt the movie-rating system for Podcasts and then allow a system admin. to set what level iTunes is allowed to download without a password.

So parents can set it to whatever level they want and the rest of us can leave the feature off. I have no problem with giving the OPTION of this kind of control for those who want it since doing something like that could be enough to keep them from having to actually remove anything.

Why is SEX offensive (arguably an "act of love") but blowing body parts all over the place (an "act of hate") is OK? What should we be trying to promote to our kids? I'd love for someone to ask Hillary Clinton that one. "Let's censor the game where you willfully have to unlock the sex as Obscene, but still allow the killing." Or "let's censor Podcasts that talk about natural human behavior".

I know what I'd rather listen to. 2600's Off The Hook, or Democracy Now. Good old subversion without the sex or violence.

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This is the United States of America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Censorship, which is an action by government to completely stop certain kinds of speech, very rarely happens here.

<roflol>

Yeah, right. If that were true, then the FDA wouldn't be able to raid book publishers and seize and burn cookbooks merely for mentioning the fact that stevia can be used as a sweetener. Just one tiny example of draconian censorship in the good ol' US of A.

It often doesn't make headlines because, well, "this is the land of the free," afterall, don't you know? As Mark Twain said, in America free speech is confined to the dead.

Well, just ask our fellow "Americans" about the number of pro-Palestinian or at least neutral opinions in newspapers and news channels, and you'll get an additional hint on "America"'s freedom of speech...not to mention the fact that "weapons of mass destruction" have their biggest stockpile in the U.S. of A..

But the funniest thing I heard some days ago from an "American" was when I said that in my country we had a good proportion of Afro-Americans as well...his wonderful reply: "huh, you mean Afro-Latinos??"

My desired reply to that display of intelligence: well, ya know America is a continent, not a country...only your moronic and obsolete Monroe Doctrine tells you that.

Besides, "latino" means someone descending from Latin people (Lacio) or speaking Latin languages, in a more direct reference to Italy (the cradle of modern civilization) and encompassing also Portugal, Spain and France...

Wake up, stupid, alienated and hypocritical ones! You guys create porn and export it everywhere; but your own girls can't wear G-strings...sad.

administration in DC get involved again???

Bastards.