American tech companies censor themselves in foreign markets

Re:American tech companies censor themselves in foreign markets by stenl on Monday July 17, 2017 @01:22AM (#14785872)

Fun fact: iTunes Store censors actor Brad P++t's last name in Sweden using two asterisks, presumably automatically, presumably because it means d+ck in swedish.

(edit: use + instead of asterisk to fool the markdown rendering)

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Re:American tech companies censor themselves in foreign markets by nocoder on Monday July 17, 2017 @01:26AM (#14785885)

I had a similar experience in India where I was watching a cooking showing and they were talking about some chicken dish. Suddenly I heard "Put the chicken [beep] in the pan", then I realized they were cooking Chicken breast and the word breast was beeped out.:P

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Re:American tech companies censor themselves in foreign markets by trendia on Monday July 17, 2017 @09:51AM (#14788459)

This is the origin of the terms "white meat" and "dark meat" -- the words breast and thigh were too inappropriate!

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Re:American tech companies censor themselves in foreign markets by mdns33 on Monday July 17, 2017 @03:01AM (#14786250)

Troll?

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Re:American tech companies censor themselves in foreign markets by DrScump on Monday July 17, 2017 @03:14AM (#14786299)

The original 1960s film "True Grit" (the John Wayne / Kim Darby / Glen Campbell classic) has several occurrences of the word "'coon" (short for raccoon), using it only in the context of the small game animals.

When the cable channel "Movies!" shows it, they edit out the term with asterisks in their closed captioning.

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