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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

How The Sun's app overcame obscenity ban

The Sun finally launched its iPhone app yesterday after an embarrassing wait of more than a month following Apple's initial refusal to accept it.

It fell foul of the company's anti-obscenity rules because its Page 3 girls were regarded as too rude. But the paper was granted an exemption because "downloading requires customers to confirm that they are 17 or over since the app 'contains age-restricted material'".

Hmmm. Does that mean people under 17 should be banned from buying the paper itself? Should it now be a top-shelf publication? Obviously not. As all Sun journalists like to say, theirs is "a family newspaper."

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