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An iTunes update that won't take half an hour to download

  • October 24, 2008
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Further to our story yesterday about the UK iTunes Music Store censoring words like 'hot' and 'lesbian', Apple got in touch first thing this morning to explain that…

»
They saw it them­selves just after we posted the story yesterday.

» They had a word checker (for poten­tially
offensive words) which was causing problems, but the new one they'd just started using was having some teething trouble.

» It's basically down to a glitch in the data­bas­ing system which is currently being fixed.

»
Fuck may well be censored but bum and hot won't.

» Gay and lesbian are "of course fine every­where" but Apple can't vouch for how many cunts and fucks get through in respect­ive ter­rit­or­ies because different countries' iTunes Stores have different good and bad words.

So there you have it.

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