Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'Barely Legal Teens'

Re:Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'B... by scott_s on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @02:34PM (#5287861)

That's so surprising I tried to find evidence of it online, but I couldn't. Partly because "index.php" is such a common thing that Google won't use it for a search term, which is ironic. Can you point to anything corroborating that?

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Re:Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'B... by cryptoz on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @02:35PM (#5287877)

There are a whole bunch of banned words. There used to be a whole slew of sites that indexed all of the things Microsoft wouldn't let you talk about. Here's an article about it in the Inquirer: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1041509/microsofts-...

Edit: that article appears to be mostly user names. Here's a forum thread to get you started: http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/index.php?topic=157.0

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Re:Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'B... by seabee on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @03:24PM (#5288320)

MSN has also banned messages containing certain TLDs e.g. '.info' and '.cx'. http://yoast.com/microsoft-censoring-info-domains-in-msn-mes...

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Re:Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'B... by scott_s on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @02:44PM (#5287948)

Thanks, interesting - all I found in my searches where the user name bans, which are standard.

This is different from what Apple is doing, as it seems to be file-name based, to avoid phishing. I still think it's completely misguided.

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Re:Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'B... by StavrosK on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @08:59AM (#5292344)

> Four letter words of a naughty nature are also banned, as well as contentious areas of the world like Scunthorpe.

That is hilarious.

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Re:Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'B... by MatthewPhillips on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @02:36PM (#5287885)

https://www.google.com/search?q=msn+messenger+censor&aq=...

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Re:Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'B... by Too on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @03:05PM (#5288164)

I think that's supposed to be download.php, not index.php. At least that's what I've experienced. (this was several years ago btw)

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Re:Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'B... by cryptoz on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @03:08PM (#5288193)

Hm, maybe it was download.php. Now I'm not sure.

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Re:Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'B... by devcpp on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @03:57PM (#5288549)

Both work for me.

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Re:Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'B... by cryptoz on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @04:05PM (#5288619)

Well, yes. I think this particular censorship was in place over a decade ago and I doubt it's still active.

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