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> they are also not allowed to block your access to legal content, regardless of what they may think of it

What law forbids this?

I was just thinking morally.

I'm not sure if a private company is allowed to block their customers from accessing content that the company, in this case Apple, simply dislike. That's may be perfectly legal.

Would Apple be allowed to block users from accessing Google from an iPhone, if they wanted to? They can't if they do to promote their on alternative, but can they if they just feel like it and don't benefit?

Yeah not sure, what argument this stands on, because Apple is private provider of content on their own platform, they can do whatever the hell they want.

I think mrweasel meant iTunes the app, not the service.

Exactly. It's perfectly fine to exclude content from the iTunes store. Apple have always banned porn in the iTunes/App store, and very few have complained about that.... Not that I would like a PornHub app for my AppleTV.

What I wouldn't like is Apple parsing the podcast feeds I enter into iTunes and potentially block me from adding certain feeds. That should be non of their business.

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