Vincent Ferrari
04-23-2009, 05:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAM9VFM6HzY' target='_blank'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAM9VFM6HzY</a><br /><br /></div><p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="600" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CAM9VFM6HzY" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CAM9VFM6HzY"></embed></object></p><p>Baby Shaker's description in the iTunes App Store challenged you to see how long you could go without shaking the baby. Doing so would put little red x's over the baby's eyes, meaning you had accomplished your task of silencing the baby.</p><p>I'm very big on free speech and the right to offend and so on. I think people are generally too sensitive and let too much crap get under their skin. I also think that political correctness and the like are bad for free speech and expression because the standards are so subjective. With that said, however, Apple has denied quite a few apps that were significantly more mild and didn't involve baby murder.</p><p>At least they took the app down, but for whatever reason it took a huge uproar to get that to happen. Regardless of what you think about the app, it's pretty hard to argue that Apple's approval process for apps isn't, at the very least, broken.</p>