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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.
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?
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.
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 would greatly affect all 3 users of this Zune thing.
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.
If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt
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!
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.
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