Apple Censorship: This Time It's Displays

[Killroy]

Apple Censorship: This Time It's Displays

 

UPDATE: In what appears be the first move toward censoring discussion of the issue, Apple Support has locked the discussion thread Bought new iMac 20" Faded Screen, which began on August 7 (the day the new iMacs were first sold). The thread had, until it was locked earlier this week, served as the major focal point for discussion of the gradient color issue that continues to trouble owners of 20" and at least some 24" 2007 iMacs.

 

The discussion thread had seen a recent surge in activity since it was mentioned in the article below, and since the beginning of the holiday shopping season. From August 7 to November 18, a 95 day period, the thread chalked up an impressive 15,000+ hits, an average of about 158 hits per day. However, in the time since then, November 19 to December 10, a period of only 21 days, the thread gained an additional 9000 hits, an average of about 429 hits per day.

 

Further exacerbating the censorship matter, new posts regarding the gradient color issue are being deleted and replaced with error messages, as seen in this example: iMac Screen Gradient - What's the next step? (we captured a screen shot of the post before it was deleted). Apple has not replied to any of the posts regarding the gradient color issue in its Intel-based iMac Display support forum, or for that matter, even acknowledged the existence of such an issue.

 

 

Click to enlarge the screenshot of the deleted discussion. Be sure to click on the image in your browser to see it in full size.

[apowerr]

Good job Apple. Your website is definitely not the place to go when consumers are experiencing issues with your product.

[Paranoid Marvin]

I used to use the Apple support forums a lot.

Then I got fed up of the blatant censorship

[sarahbau]

It's not censorship. If it were, there wouldn't still be a thread from August. The reason the threads are being closed or locked is that people aren't complying with the Terms of Use. I don't even post or read the forum, and I could tell that:

 

 

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The threads being deleted were started by people breaking rule #3. The threads that were locked had posts that broke rule #3, but were left open because the topic starter did not break the rules.