Saturday, Jan 30, 2010    Text size: 

In a post on Adobe's official Flash blog entitled "The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience?" Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow, an expert on the Flash, Flex, and AIR developer communities, included a censored screenshot of the popular adult website among screenshots of other well-trafficked websites that rely heavily on Flash to deliver their intended user experience — an experience that "i" users do not currently get to partake in, due to licensing issues.

The offending screenshot has since been removed and replaced with a generic image with text apologizing to anyone who may have been offended by the original image.

While the original image was pixilated, preventing any explicit imagery from being displayed, the resulting hoopla over the use of an adult site — censored or not — even for such a benign example of cross-platform technology challenges, shows the pressures faced by large corporations dealing with activist opposition to erotic material.

For example, Morality in Media recently issued a call to its national member base asking the faithful to use Apple's feedback form or direct customer service lines to call and oppose the growing number of adult themed apps and demand that the company keep "porn" (defined in the broadest of terms) out of the App Store.