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Zune HD Twitter App Censors Tweets For You!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that's-service dept.

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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  1. Option by rocket97 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It should be an option, not a requirement.

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    1. Re:Option by Clover_Kicker · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Underpowered? It's an 800Mhz ARM CPU, surely to fuck it can do a little text processing on 150 character tweets.

      I'm guessing top-end mainframes didn't achieve that kind of CPU power until the late 80s.

      Back in the day, ftp.cdrom.com pushed ~1TB a day from one 200-MHz P6 Pentium Pro.

      Now get of my lawn.

  2. Who cares? by jamesl · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... but this kind of active content censorship just rubs me the wrong way.

    Then don't use it.

  3. Twitter is stupid anyway by Alanonfire · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so who cares?

  4. Re:Zune + HD + twitter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I am not a "Fanboi" but where do you get that the Zune is a crappy MP3 player? The only people that I hear that from are Apple Zealots who have never even tried the Zune. I tried one of my friends 2nd gen ones (pre HD) and I loved it. It had some features that I wish my iPod had on it that Apple stole in the latest release of the iPod, FM radio for example.

  5. Re:No toggle? by megamerican · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He's choosing to be censored, therefore it isn't censorship. He could easily use a different app or different platform and get his naughty words unmolested.

    This is a completely non-issue and a waste of time. These types of articles are rearing their heads more than usual lately.

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  6. Re:Censored Tweet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why do you want to hook it up to your mom rather than your computer?

  7. Re:Ugh... by blai · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How did you know my p***word?

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