Fast forward to the 21st century: We finally resurrected our PowerBook from beyond the grave (thanks for not putting in the motion protection for hard drives in the 12" model, Apple -- we lost our pirated music collection all our pirated applications), we installed all our software updates and got the fancy new iTunes 4.9, and decided to play with the new tool for subscribing to podcasts. First stop -- SFist Violet's Open Source Sex.

Of course, we had to wade past all the content from KCRW and the BBC, but when we found Violet's feed, it was marked 'explicit.' The latest episode, where she read from her teledildonics prezzo at Dorkbot, had more to do with creating open source standards for the software and more hygenic hardware. But Steve Jobs thinks that porn is bad and evil and dirty and something that Apple would never want associated with their brand -- though we're sure he has no problem selling hardware to all the creatives in the porn industry. This 'concerned parent' wants them to go further and install parental locks, you know, for the children.

When all is said and done, marking stuff 'explicit' is going to be great -- it'll make the good podcasts so easy to find! Kind of like how the packages addressed to your parents in non-descript, brown paper packaging were mysteriously lost by the postman or stolen from your front porch.

Via BoingBoing and Fleshbot.

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