So, yeah, iTunes won’t censor “bitch,” but it will censor “jailbreak.” Or at least it did.
For those who have Android, “jailbreaking” is the term applied to modifying iPhones and iPads to accept software Apple hasn’t approved of, and potentially can be used for app piracy. It invalidates your warranty, so you need to know what you’re doing before you do it.
Apple has fought jailbreaking for years, even though, really, once your phone is paid off, they have no right to tell you what you can and cannot do with your property. And, temporarily, they were trying to censor the term, although once it was pointed out to them that this meant apps and songs by Thin Lizzy were suddenly ridiculously censored, they knocked it off.
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