The idea is that if you're going to do it at all, you should do it competently. The biggest component of the early uproar over the approval process was that it

The idea is that if you're going to do it at all, you should do it competently. The biggest component of the early uproar over the approval process was that it was a total cockup. As for "written policy or term of service", those only apply to you, not Apple, and are enforced at their leisure under their interpretation. They can do whatever they want -- they don't have to publish your work if they don't want to. Currently Apple only polices trademarks and copyrights that they own themselves -- for everything else they willfully turn a blind eye and wait for an infringement notice from the IP owner. They probably think they can successfully argue to a court that this absolves them of responsibility in all cases under the DMCA, but I'm not so sure.