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Apple Censoring 'Jailbreak' in U.S. iTunes Store Listings [Update: Fixed]

Censoring always works, right?

Is Apple really that ignorant about the world-at-large (read: the internets) and their ability and hungry penchant to bypass censoring devices?

Are they really that backward? Do they not realize that the moment you attempt to censor anything - that just brings it more attention than it otherwise would have received?

Man this is sad. I expect better from the world's most promising tech company.
 
pgifford said:
Doesn't doing that just bring more attention to it?
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Yep! This is beyond stupid. Everyone knows about jailbreaking and some folks "need" to do it and suffer several inconveniences to do so. But the vast, supermajority of users not only don't want to jailbreak, they fear the lack of hand holding the walled garden delivers. Stop hiding reality and simply keep the buzz going that the walled garden equals safety and security.

But what's really phunnie is it censors fields vetted by Apple itself!

Rocketman
 
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This is like Jimmy Kimmel's Unnecessary Censorship where because of the censorship, you imagine something far more worse than what it actually is. Looking at it, I first imagined it saying Jello F---.
 
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?… Has it ever occurred to your, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?…The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." 1984
 
I'm old enough to remember Roy Rogers in the 1950's, and I assure you that he never jailbreaked his iPhone!
 
TheSlush said:
Must be a technical mistake, meant to be for app titles and not other content. To be corrected soon, I'm sure.
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Why would you use this sort of sledgehammer for app titles? Apple could just refuse to accept the app if it relates to phone jailbreaking, but if you apply it to all app titles, then, for example, games based on a prison break scenario would be stopped form calling themselves Jailbreak :confused:
 
*facepalm*... no, "facedesk*

Who knew Thin Lizzy was breaking the iPhone EULA some 30+ years before the iPhone even existed!

Also, I can’t wait to download ‘Do A*****ds Dream of Electric Sheep?’ by Phillip K. D**k on iBooks. :rolleyes:
 
Let me humbly be the first to suggest "BrailleJake" as a suitably recognizable and associable alternate word in order to bypass the language filters and FCC censors.

And of course the related adjective "BrailleJokin'".
 
This strikes me as a mistake. Like, someone was working on code to find the word hidden in app store descriptions and messed it all up somehow.

I dunno, that seems unbelievable, but so does "they did this on purpose." Not sure what's going on here.
 
Can't say I'm seeing it.
 

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samwise said:
Why would you use this sort of sledgehammer for app titles? Apple could just refuse to accept the app if it relates to phone jailbreaking, but if you apply it to all app titles, then, for example, games based on a prison break scenario would be stopped form calling themselves Jailbreak :confused:
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App developers can change text in the description at any time they like without any approval from Apple.
 
Wow, that's about as queer as it gets. Why, again, are they wasting their time doing stupid crap like this?
 
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