Tuesday, March 31, 2015

The New Censorship: Clean Reader and the Dystopian Future of Reading

The New Censorship: Clean Reader and the Dystopian Future of Reading


Clean Reader, a new censorship app dreamed up by a couple of despotically hokey parents from Idaho, is now facing a backlash. If you’ve somehow missed the story up to this point, it’s fairly straightforward: Jared and Kirsten Maughan from Twin Falls came up with the idea for the app after their daughter complained about some swear words in a book she was reading. 
So they did what any healthy Christian family would do: they tried to cash in. The product? An app with three censorship settings: clean, cleaner, and squeaky-clean. … Read More

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