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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. Ciminals... by KellyMann · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Censorship is the control of speech and other forms of human expression, it is often (but not necessarily) controlled by government intervention. The visible motive of censorship is often to stabilize or improve the society that the government would have control over. It is most commonly applied to acts that occur in public circumstances, and most formally involves the suppression of ideas by criminalizing or regulating expression." So what is going to happen to all the website that transmit or retransmit audio and/or video ( with http://www.phooty.com/ currently my favorite )?

  2. This breaks two parts of the US Constitution by GrapeSteinbeck · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Hate to burst Congress's bubble, but I was looking through the constitution , and apparently Article I Section 9 Title 3 says:
    No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passeed
    Meaning that even if congress wanted to, Congress can't make a law blocking somthing that's "going to happen" or already has happened.