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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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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.
Should be, but isn't. Clearly the people who write software for a Zune are not rocket scientists in the first place, right?
TFA also complains that the app is slow. Well, if you're searching all text input for a dictionary of naughty words on a underpowered embedded CPU, the fact that it turns out slow is not a surprise.
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.
Because they used the full product name, I'm going to say the opposite, this is someone trying to keep us talking about the otherwise failing and undesirable Microsoft product. It is completely inane, the only possible explanation is a marketing troll.
Speak for yourself. Twitter saves me a ton of time everyday. I use it mostly for professional networking (I'm a programmer). I follow a couple hundred other programmers. Instead of me surfing the web an hour so a day to keep my finger on the pulse of the programming world, the information comes to me in my twitter stream. It's much better than looking for content or subscribing to RSS feeds.
Nobody says "check out my cool new Microsoft Zune HD®!" in normal speech. I don't write like that in any kind of informal setting. Not to say grandparent is 100% accurate, but it sounds strange.