Censorship By Algorithm

…or by A.I., the outcome is the same.

Seen SOTI:

Since when could we not say simple words like “racists” and “pedophiles”*?

Since “bad” words could be flagged by built-in website algorithms and cause the post and/or writer to be “flagged” or even “banned”, is when.

Which is why I don’t bowdlerize my writing here;  if I want to say “rapist” I’ll fucking well say “RAPIST”, and if I want to say “porn” I’ll say that too, and not “p*rn” or its pathetic ilk.

It’s too bad, because the above statement lends itself to being quite funny, provided that you don’t encounter the linguistic roadblock of having to hunt for the substitute letters for the asterisks.


*(For my Brit Readers, “paedophiles” which would emerge as “p**dophiles”, which is doubleplusunreadable.)

7 comments

  1. I have a shopping list app that I can talk into. We have a white board that we write what we need/want on, then I read it into the app.

    For some reason yesterday when I was reading it I said “Fucking”, and the app dutiful censored me F******.

    Grrr.

  2. Where’s the algorithm that changes “minor attracted person” to “fucking pedophile sicko!”?

  3. Go to YouTube and search for Anna Paulina Luna Fox News Hillary Clinton is like Herpes

    Anna stated that Hillary Clinton won’t go away she’s like herpes.

    Fox cut her off of the segment and said the comment was not appropriate.

    Fuck Fox News. Fuck all lame Stream Media.
    Legacy media sucks.

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