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Zune HD Twitter App Censors Tweets For You!
SharpFang writes "The new Zune HD Twitter app censors naughty words out of tweets in your timeline. Sure, it's a free app, but this kind of active content censorship just rubs me the wrong way."
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I hate these f****** people always f******* censoring anything they can get their f****** hands on!!!!
This needs more cowbell!!!
It should be an option, not a requirement.
"The two most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." -Harlan Ellison
Your Zune usage rubs me the wrong way.
Is there no way to turn off the censoring then?
Then don't use it.
"This Zune HD isn't as good as the i*** T*****. I wish I could hook it up to my M** instead of my PC."
so who cares?
This combination makes no sense to me.
Last time I checked Zune was a crappy MP3 player. Now it's a smart phone? With a 1920×1080 screen? And you can go on twitter?
Wut
The world of technology is leaving me behind
Perhaps in the near future it will be repurposed to filter out the stupid. I, for one, would blow Bill Gates if he could just do this and kill Twitter.
This is a clbuttic case of censorship gone too far.
Twitter is a completely pointless exercise in time-wasting...
So the Zune HD can twit. Big deal - there's no WWAN so it's not like you can do it anywhere you want. And it's not like the only way to twit is via a Zune HD. If there's a need to twit 24/7 your every breath, poop, and pee, you'd have gotten a cellphone with that capability already (unless you don't do those things outside the range of WiFi networks).
What do you call 1 million censored tweets?
A good start!
Hey-o!
Naughty words in which language? Only English?
Cory Doctorow talking about cloud computing makes as much sense as George W Bush talking about electrical engineering.
Stupid fucking disrespecting-my-goddamn-freedom-of-speech assholes.
The problem with socialism is that they always run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher
When the submitter plagiarizes from TFA, that rubs me the wrong way. Quoting the article is one thing; changing a pronoun from "us" to "me" so that the quote reads as your voice is obnoxious.
I think TFA's use of the word "censor" here is borderline; the zune app is not the means of publication. That said, if there's really no option to turn this feature off, then it's not an app I would use.
This should be huge in the bible belt - words are just words - it's really FUCKING dumb = )
...it's a paid placement
~nt~
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This would greatly affect all 3 users of this Zune thing.
In Soviet Russia tweets censor Zune HD! I think I'm moving to Soviet Russia.
All you have to do is "SKIP THE APP"
For real? is this a news story?
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.
A couple of posts before, there were THREE Zune users. Now there are nine? It's popularity has tripled in a matter of hours?
Somebody go wake up Balmer.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Otherwise I might be really annoyed.
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Half of /. content would be gone!
...but this kind of active content censorship just rubs me the wrong way.
That's the point! We must make sure that NOBODY rubs ANYBODY in ANYWAY!!! Unchecked, uncensored free instant communication could lead to things like "flash orgies", or worse, real cock fights! (there's your disturbing mental image for the day)
/. I have to say, just kidding, and that is depressing.
Trust us, this is for your own good...
and because this is
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
But we really want to know what it does with WTF.
They still make the Zune? I thought that it was like Microsoft Bob. Is it still brown?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
... microsoft suck chinese government apointed censor dick long time, this really no big deal?
All 7 Zune owners are up in arms!
Some people voluntarily downloading an app to censor their private viewing to their own tastes rubs you the wrong way?
You have a fine future ahead in the political arena, son! It's full of people who go nuts at the thought that someone, somewhere, is doing something according to their own whims.
Hey, I tease.
Anyone do the "all $LOW_NUMBER Zune users" yet? As, I see they have. Carry on then, lads (and all $LOW_NUMBER of you ladies).
It's my fucking phone so i will fucking censor the shit if I want to - so Fuck Off!
Well isn't that nice.
Look, words like fuck, lesbian, belgium, and ******* might be offensive and/or degrading and might even cause psychological trauma in the viewer, but nothing can repair the damage done by censorship. It's like the abortion of spoken words. Where would we be today if not for the words spoken by the greats M**** T********, W*** R******, and ***** *************, let alone &!-679!+)1:5'6"%CARRIER LOST
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
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UnZuned link
Free Martian Whores!
Are we not liking this because it's optional, free, we don't like the way the optional free thing works, or is it more of a principled blind opposition to anything MS?
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It would watch for inappropriate messages, both out-going as well as incoming. Depending on the language use, emails would be rated with a number of chillies. The only 3-chilly email I ever got was from someone who was totally enthusiastic about an upcoming kite festival. It didn't even contain any swear words. Go figure.
I know slashdotters will whine about censorship but the reality is this will make twitter far more useful. Once it's implemented in reverse, that is: twitter will be far more entertaining when I can click a link and censor out all the tweets that lack colorful language.
I'm far more worried about students who read my drunken tweets! And not just on fridays or saturdays....
I mean you can't watch youtube on it and I don't think Hulu works either. (Which is funny since given it's OLED it actually has a nice screen.)
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
Who cares? Zune has an SDK right? Write your own twitter app and stop waiting for MS to do it for you (which is what they did in this case right?)
But it can it do...
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