Iron Ink Media: Inked Up

Who cares if every elementary school in the country has one in the classroom. The iPhone is no place for learning! You can tune into prime time television every night and hear swear words, but Apple is stepping in and saving the country from corruption. In all seriousness, this is just absurd.

TechCrunch writer John Biggs rants about the censoring AND 17+ rating NinjaWords got slapped with.

In order to prevent accidental disclosure of bad words, the programming team was nice enough to require users to type in entire bad words in order to see them (”fuck” not “fuc”) – ensuring you can’t just flick through and find them – but that’s not nearly enough for Apple. No, the dictionary must be scoured of scurrilous talk.

After being rejected a first time, the programmers removed most of the bad words, missed one, and got rejected again… Finally, after a long wait they got into the app store but on double-secret probation with a 17+ rating and warnings of potential objectionable content.