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Microsoft Seeking to Patent Automatic Censorship

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tom-petty-free-playlists dept.

theodp writes "Microsoft is back at the USPTO, this time seeking a patent for the automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast, a system and method for automatically altering audio to prevent undesired words and phrases from being understandable to a listener as originally uttered."

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  1. Sounds very sick by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What kind of fucked-up parent lets their 9 year old play XBox Live in the first place?

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    1. Re:Sounds very sick by Spacejock · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I bought Fable for the PC, and my daughters saw it and immediately wanted to play it. However, it carries an M rating and when I checked my character stats I saw why: One of the entries says 'number of times had sex'
      The thing is, the game has cutesy graphics and starts out with this innocuous-looking kid like something out of an N64 game. At first glance it DOES look like a childs game, so who are they marketing it to?

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