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Apple Censoring 'Jailbreak' in U.S. iTunes Store Listings [Update: Fixed]
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This is a sensationalist article, is entirely needless, and serves no end other than providing an avenue for even more needless forum banter.
Not Censorship
Apple has not "censored" anything. In the US, only congress is prohibited from censorship. What Apple has done is make a business decision. And is we do not like it, we can shop elsewhere.
Apple has not "censored" anything. In the US, only congress is prohibited from censorship. What Apple has done is make a business decision. And is we do not like it, we can shop elsewhere.
No sir
It's their product..they can sensor what they want in search results. Public does not own it.
It's their product..they can sensor what they want in search results. Public does not own it.
Yes,you are right. We should only have articles that can nurture our blind worship to Apple.
Ridiculous ^^
Still I guess it's mostly somebody updating a dictionary of forbidden words but still...
It's quite laughable, in general, that we hide words of vocabulary simply because they represents things that some close minded people wish we wouldn't speak about.
Still I guess it's mostly somebody updating a dictionary of forbidden words but still...
It's quite laughable, in general, that we hide words of vocabulary simply because they represents things that some close minded people wish we wouldn't speak about.
This seems so pointless. There's not even anything on iTunes about jail breaking (as in the process of using Cydia 
! I see nowhere in the definition of censorship that it applies only to government. Let's call a spade a spade...Apple's act of replacing letters in 'jailbreak' with asterisks is censorship. They are suppressing what they deem to be unacceptable.
If only Congress was allowed to censor, then it would follow that what Apple is doing isn't censorship. However, I don't see how Congress being prohibited from censoring proves Apple isn't censoring things.
In any case, putting aside the broader civil rights issue of censorship, isn't the technique of beeping out spoken words or covering them with **** called censoring? Like songs released in censored and uncensored versions? So Apple adding **** to certain words they find provocative would be censoring.
Congratulations Apple. Censorship bit you in the ass, and now you look like idiots. Who'd have thought?
Plain Stupid, The US is censoring way too much.
Happy I am from the most liberal country in the world, no censor.
Happy I am from the most liberal country in the world, no censor.
Nothing to see here folks.
Just some graveyard shift junior-level iTunes Store content editor being a little sloppy with the banned words list editor.
I am unsurprised to see a legion of people here who have little understanding of the Bill Of Rights and what "freedom of speech" means related to constitutional law, something covered in a high school civics class.
Of course, underage MacRumors commenters are off the hook (and yes, there are lots) but any American adult here should know what the Bill of Rights' "freedom of speech" really means and who it refers to.
Just some graveyard shift junior-level iTunes Store content editor being a little sloppy with the banned words list editor.
I am unsurprised to see a legion of people here who have little understanding of the Bill Of Rights and what "freedom of speech" means related to constitutional law, something covered in a high school civics class.
Of course, underage MacRumors commenters are off the hook (and yes, there are lots) but any American adult here should know what the Bill of Rights' "freedom of speech" really means and who it refers to.
Tony is right.... This had to be intended for apps (even so, I can't imagine why) but is clearly a mistake for music and movies.
Apple has not "censored" anything. [wrong]
In the US, only congress is prohibited from censorship. [wrong]
What Apple has done is make a business decision. [probably wrong]
And is we do not like it, we can shop elsewhere.
