The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has banned the word for male birds from its website, drawing accusations of political correctness gone mad.
Visitors to the website found the word "cock" had been replaced by asterisks, while the species, tit, suffered no such indignity.
Forum user John D, of Yorkshire, told The Sun: "As bird lovers will know, a Parus Major is a great tit and while cocks do not get past the forum censor, tits do not cause offence. I've heard of PC but that is taking things too far."
A worker claimed the word had been replaced because of software filters but an RSPB spokesman said it preferred to describe birds as either male or female.
What did you think the article was going to be about, you dirty dirty minds!?
Seriously, best headline I've read in quite a while.
When NASA was running the program, marsexplorer.com had problems with web censors.
Mayabird is my girlfriend
Justice League:BotM:MM:SDnet City Watch:Cybertron's Finest "Well then, science is bullshit. "
-revprez, with yet another brilliant rebuttal.
I actually have problems with using my own name at places where they got word filters.
Brotherhood of the Monkey @( !.! )@ To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. ~Steve Prefontaine Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
If I say on Radio:
"Look at that Rooster, He is a well bred Cock"
thats fine.
But if I say:
"Would you like to Suck my C***"
Well THAT would get bleeped...
Silly is it not?
Praying is another way of doing nothing helpful
"Congratulations, you get a cookie. You almost got a fundamental English word correct." Pick
"Outlaw star has spaceships that punch eachother" Joviwan Read "Tales From The Crossroads"! Read "One Wrong Turn"!
Reminds me of the WoW forums. I recall a thread a while back that was about an item called the 'Drape of Benediction.' Anyone posting its name would be hashed to D#@$% of Benediction. Their own censor would go into other words just to pluck out something that might offend someone.
Chronological Incontinence: Time warps around the poster. The thread topic winks out of existence and reappears in 1d10 posts.
Out of Context Theatre, this week starring Darth Nostril.
-'If you really want to fuck with these idiots tell them that there is a vaccine for chemtrails.'
Haven't this happened before? Wasn't the result 1337speak?
It might make a comeback.
Jesse Helms died on the 4th of July and the nation celebrated with fireworks, BBQs and a day off for everyone. -- Ed Brayton, Dispatches from the Culture Wars
"And a force-sensitive mandalorian female Bountyhunter, who is also the granddaughter of Darth Vader is as cool as it can get. Almost absolute zero." -- FTeik
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:When the flying fuck are people going to realize en masse that word filter censors don't work and are way more trouble than they're worth?
I will point out a technical problem with censors as well. Censors are not perfect.
There is problem called xss or cross site scripting plagueing the web at the moment. By executing code within emails, forums or anywhere user input is allowed great damage can be done. Restricted tags or characters such as <script or javascript:alert('something') can be creatively obfuscated to pass through censors and yet be executed on client browsers. To show an example even a few years ago writting <script as <sCript was sufficient to go through hotmail's security.
If censor software can not reliably block malicious scripts or commands what luck could they have with something as colorfull as human language ? You can obfuscate fuck as f**k and people will still get it ! Given how 1337 speak butchers language there is unstoppable number of ways to twist censored words while remaing obvious to a human reader. How many god damn variations of words can admins ban ?
I have to tell you something everything I wrote above is a lie.
