Apple blocks iPhone South Park app

Ooh, it’s difficult not to become cynical and sarcastic when Apple demonstrates a working system of double standards on such a regular basis, which comes across as nothing short of corporate censorship.

Despite uncensored episodes of South Park on iTunes keeping Apple’s wallet well stuffed, it’s now blocked the iPhone app that the show’s creators have been trying to get through the submissions process since last October.

The app would have allowed you to watch clips, browse the series’ index, assign South Park-esque pictures to your contacts and a host of other badly animated nonsense that so many love so much. Yet Apple has deemed it “potentially offensive”.

Of course it’s potentially offensive. An apple can be 'potentially' offensive if you do something inappropriate with it. It's exacty this kind of nebulous statement that demonstrates the gaping hole in the App Store’s structure.

If Apple put the correct resources and proper forethought into how apps can be quantified, ratified and appropriately administered (as the entertainment industry’s been doing for many, many years) it wouldn’t come across as such a sectarian and spineless political non-entity.

Sorry, did I say that out loud?

While we wait for the South Park app to get past the thought police, we're going to refrain from buying any episodes of the TV show through iTunes so as to adhere to Apple's apparently high moral standards. Sounds fair, eh?

Come on Apple. Grow up, and get your house in order or we’re going to set Sadam Hussein on you.

Via BoingBoing.

Matt Stone testing out the South Park app, but you can't come.