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November 10, 2009

iTunes Confuses Doo Wop with Some Esoteric Racial Slur... Adds Asterisk...

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The Guardian:

An automated censoring service has left iTunes embarrassed after it censored “doo wop” to “doo w*p”, confusing consumers, including Radio 2 DJ Jeremy Vine.

When Vine mentioned in passing to fellow DJ Ken Bruce on Wednesday that he was surprised to find iTunes had censored an album he wanted, it caused an on-air stir.

A search of iTunes reveals that the asterisk substitution does not apply only to the 1950s genre, but to any track or album that mentions the racial slur wop, including Lauryn Hill and, those famously inflammatory artists, Prefab Sprout.



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