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Should Apple sell copies of Mein Kampf?

The Jerusalem Post is one of several with the story:

Apple Inc. on Friday approved for sale a Spanish-language eBook version of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, complete with a swastika application icon.

A day later, presumably due to the blogosphere uproar, the $1.99 offering disappeared from the Apple’s Application Store…

9to5Mac, a Apple Intelligence site, questioned Apple Inc.’s policy, saying, “We know the App Store won’t sell overt erotica – even eBooks carrying the ancient love manual, the Kama Sutra, have been banned from the store – so we’re really, really keen to know how come the company approved a Spanish App containing Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, complete with a swastika logo.”

Generally views seem to fall in to various combinations of:

(a) No way should Apple sell copies of Mein Kampf.

(b) Of course Apple should be able to sell the book.

(c) Apple should have noticed that it’s illegal to sell the book in some countries. They should be above the law.

(d) It all goes to show how absurd Apple’s approval process is if they let through Mein Kampf but don’t let through other applications.

(e) Allow it, ban it, juggling with the law and be inconsistent? Apple’s turning in to Microsoft.

What do you think?

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