[Foundation-l] Is Apple censoring Wiktionary?

Thu Aug 6 20:32:20 UTC 2009

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net> wrote:

> This sort of stuff has been circulating for several weeks, and my
> understanding is that it's a general policy Apple's app store is
> applying to all unfiltered internet content.

That'd make sense, I think. From the article linked, it sounds like giving
the application in question might be approved with a "17+" rating. That's
probably reasonable where the application and its designer are drawing from
unrated content beyond their control. I'm sure many of us are familiar with
that game-rating euphemism, "Experience may change during online play." This
sounds like a similar idea to me.

Accepting the article at face value, I'm just confused why it seems to have
taken so much trouble to get Apple to say so.

-Luna