Don’t you love it when a single individual decides to dictate where a market should go?  There are 1.8 billion Internet users but Jobs decides he is going to point the direction to the promised land.  He single handily decides to ban Adobe Flash from his the iPhone and iPad because he’s got a perceived performance problem with the platform. I’m glad Apple is in the game but i can’t figure out if Jobs is a technology messiah or just a crank? Then again he is Steve Jobs.

Now the latest Job’s crusade is porn and he appears quite proud of blocking porn on the iPhone and iPad. Okay, there is too much porn on the Internet but what’s worse in my eyes to the dehumanizing porn is the outright stench of censorship. Freedom to act like an ass is a fundamental human right that shouldn’t be infringed upon by any government nor by a  corporation. Messy individual behavior is always preferable to government oversight; in fact I Think we fought a number of wars over this issue.

So what really got my ire?  In response to an email about what Bob Dylan would think about the iPad and freedom, Herr Job replied:

“Yep, freedom 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’, and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away.”

What’s more amazing is the way fanboys swoon at Job’s every statement even to the point of creating an Apple dating site. I even understand that every Apple date is personally chaperoned by big brother Jobs himself.  And please no sexting from the your iPhones kiddies, Steve Jobs wouldn’t approve.

Jeez, what’s next from Apple and big brother Steve Jobs?  Maybe a burka with an Apple logo on it?  Or can Apple invent a new police state since Apple is not hesitant to work with the authorities in order to get bloggers in line as they did with the stolen iPhone and Gizmodo.

I keep trying to remind myself who died and left Stevie in charge?  Oh  yeah, then I remembered it was Microsoft.