Portland Mercury on Twitter Portland Mercury on Facebook Portland Mercury on Instagram

This Week in the Mercury

Babe in the City

Film

Babe in the City

Unpacking the Portland Brand in City Baby


King of the Hill

Books

King of the Hill

Joe Hill's NOS4A2 Is a Horrific Wild Ride



  |  

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Oh, You Kids! / Tech Apple's War on Barely Legal Teens

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:44 PM

Steve Jobs once promised that Apple products would provide the world "freedom from porn," and it looks like Apple is taking that "freedom" directly to your private e-mail. MacWorld reported this morning:

Apple's iCloud email service deletes all emails that contain the phrase "barely legal teen" it was revealed today.

Macworld has tested this by sending two test emails from a personal iCloud account. The message read "My friend's son is already allowed to drive his high-powered car. It's ridiculous. He's a barely legal teenage driver? What on earth is John thinking."

The second email amended the phrase "a barely legal" to "barely a legal". This second email was delivered fine, whereas the first is still undelivered.

I bet every tech journalist in the world is right now sending the filthiest e-mails imaginable from their iCloud accounts.

Comments (3)

Showing 1-3 of 3

 
Subscribe to this thread:
By Email
With RSS
Showing 1-3 of 3

Comments are closed.

Our Friends

Our Enemies

All contents © Index Newspapers, LLC

115 SW Ash St. Suite 600
Portland, OR 97204

Contact Info | Privacy Policy | Production Guidelines | Terms of Use | Takedown Policy