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Amazon pulled Every Word app due to the N-word

August 11th, 2010 by Nate Hoffelder · 1 Comment · Amazon, apps & games

I have a follow up on the story I reported earlier today. Amazon pulled the app. Here’s what Crunchgear reported:

Just got word from Amazon, and they’re going to stop distributing the game because “the dictionary it uses does not block some inappropriate words.” Once the offending words are expunged, distribution will resume and an update will be released for people who downloaded the old version.

via Crunchgear

Huh. That was quick.

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  • Perry

    Interesting. Those types of games drive me nuts because they don’t have a lot of everyday words in them anyway.

    So are they going to stop the way the letters work so that those words can’t be formed, or are they just stopping you from using the word.

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