[Foundation-l] Is Apple censoring Wiktionary?

Techman224 techman224 at techman224.com
Thu Aug 6 19:40:02 UTC 2009


http://www.macworld.com/article/142148/2009/08/ninjawords_schiller.html?lsrc=twt_macworld

I found this news article on Macworld that Phil Schiller contacted the  
developer of the Ninjawords dictionary app for the iPhone/iPod Touch.  
He said that the application was blocked because the app pulled the  
information from Wiktionary, which he says it contains offensive  
"urban slang" terns that traditional dictionaries (like paper) don't  
have. He said that putting a 17+ rating would be all that he needed to  
do. So I starting to wonder if Apple is starting to censor apps that  
can access "offensive" words, not just Wiktionary, but all of the  
Wikimedia Foundation projects.

Techman224




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