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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. Ugh... by Kc_spot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hate these f****** people always f******* censoring anything they can get their f****** hands on!!!!

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    1. Re:Ugh... by kehren77 · · Score: 4, Funny

      THAT'S IT! I've had it with these motherf***ing censors on this motherf***ing internet!

    2. Re:Ugh... by Icegryphon · · Score: 3, Informative

      YOUR MOTHER IS A CLASSY LADY!

    3. Re:Ugh... by gyrogeerloose · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah. Copulate that excrement!

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    4. Re:Ugh... by Dragonslicer · · Score: 4, Funny

      YOUR MOTHER IS A CLBUTTY LADY!

      Fixed that for you.

      Now if only I could fix the stupid caps filter...

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

    It should be an option, not a requirement.

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    1. Re:Option by sys.stdout.write · · Score: 3, Funny

      It should be an option, not a requirement.

      An option that turns on during Friday and Saturday nights so drunken texts to professors are less likely to get you kicked out of school.

    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.

    3. 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.

  3. Censorship rubs you the wrong way by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your Zune usage rubs me the wrong way.

    1. Re:Censorship rubs you the wrong way by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 3, Funny

      The phrase "Rubs me the wrong way" really grinds my gears.

  4. Censored Tweet by norminator · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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."

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

    so who cares?

  6. Beta? by Snarkalicious · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Beta? by CorporateSuit · · Score: 3, Funny

      Perhaps in the near future it will be repurposed to filter out the stupid.

      I have a hostfile for that.

      twitter.com 127.0.0.1
      www.twitter.com 127.0.0.1
      myspace.com 127.0.0.1
      www.myspace.com 127.0.0.1
      facebook.com 127.0.0.1
      www.facebook.com 127.0.0.1
      youtube.com 127.0.0.1
      www.youtube.com 127.0.0.1
      digg.com 127.0.0.1
      www.digg.com 127.0.0.1

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  7. Joke time! by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you call 1 million censored tweets?

    A good start!

    Hey-o!

    1. Re:Joke time! by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Alright then lets keep this rolling.

      Did you hear the one about the Terrorist who held a bunch of Twitter users hostage?

      He threatened to release one every hour until his demands were met!

      Zzzzzing!

  8. 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.

  9. Wow terrible... by Ractive · · Score: 5, Funny

    This would greatly affect all 3 users of this Zune thing.

  10. And then there were nine by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll tell you who cares, all 9 Zune users, that's who cares!

    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.

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