Apple Lifts Ban On the Word "Jailbreak" 113
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timothy
from the sweet-of-them dept.
from the sweet-of-them dept.
Gunkerty Jeb writes "After banning the word 'jailbreak' from its app store and music library, Apple [Friday] reversed course and again permits the term — slang for hacking into a device to download unauthorized content — to appear on iTunes and its App Store. On Thursday bloggers noticed Apple had censored the word, using the Thin Lizzy album 'Jailbreak' as an example. For awhile, the title was listed as 'J******k' in Apple's music library, at least its U.S. version. In other instances, digital content continued to bear the full name Jailbreak."
Nuspeak (Score:4, Informative)
[jailbreak] - slang for hacking into a device to download unauthorized content
WTF?
Re:I wonder how AC/DC weathered this storm. (Score:4, Informative)
Don't forget telling others why they should vote the same way.
Re:First they want to control your speech (Score:5, Informative)
You realize this is Apple we're talking about, right? I think they followed that list exactly in reverse;
> Reality distortion field, army of fanboys ready to stand up for the stupidest decisions (I am still amazed at the instant turnover that was the end to the years of "PowerPC is better!" when Apple moved to iX86), heavy marketing to make you believe it is something it isn't.
> Walled garden that goes almost totally unquestioned by users. An unfortunate tendency for Apple to offer "official" (and mangled) versions of open source libraries, making use of the real ones more difficult. Heavily locked down hardware, even on desktops, compared to non-Apple computers.
> THEN censorship like this.
I am not really sure what they hoped to gain, making it quite possible this specific case was just a screwup of some middle-manager. However, that does not absolve Apple of their other sins; it simply illustrates how much unwarranted power Apple wields, with no oversight, over a growing segment of the computing world. Truly frightening.
Re:What. (Score:5, Informative)