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iTunes unhappy with “racist” S***ks and Specks app

iTunes rewords a "S***ks and Specks" app, worried the word may be deemed too offensive.

ABC has asked Apple’s iTunes to reconsider an iPhone trivia app for Spicks and Specks, after it automatically deemed its title inappropriate.

iTunes has amended the title to S***ks and Specks, worried the word may be deemed offensive to Hispanics.

The app is described as: “Inspired by the show, the S***ks and Specks Quiz has all your favourite games from the series with a few new ones thrown in, so all you trivia fanatics out there can keep the fun going backstage, on tour and everywhere in between.”

I guess they’ve forgotten all about The Bee Gees.

Screenshots still state the full title.

An ABC spokesman said, “It’s just a technical hitch because iTunes is a US-based platform [and] it automatically censors words which mean something offensive in America.

“We’ve asked them to review it and are waiting for a response.”

Source: PedestrianTV

34 Responses

  1. @chk chk, I don’t think the word itself is Spanish but, like most racist slurs, comes from the majority white population … it’s the equivalent of what calling an African American a n*****r is.

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