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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. Know what rubs me the wrong way? by mea37 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  2. Re:Option by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.