Spaces Censors
Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin decided to test out lots of profane blog titles. Turns out MSN Spaces censors certain blog titles. The seven dirty words are out, as are most other similar words (anything you'd hear on NYPD Blue), except for one. On the other hand, "Pornography", "Whore" and "Lolita" are out. Weird. I guess you can't have a porno theme for your blog. You can say whatever you want, but MSN is trying to censor blog titles (your focus) and post titles (your discussion). Guess we'll see a lot of |337 speak blog titles.
posted by Nathan Weinberg at 12:20 AM
2 Comments:
Their conclusion was: "A mixed bag of results that manages to do what most attempts to automate censorship do -- make fools of the censors."
Eh, I'd say it did a lot better job of making fool of a person who admittedly sat around feeling proud of himself for coming up with blogs like "World of Poop" and "Butt Sex Is Awesome." I prolly woulda been pretty entertained by that in elementary school, but I figure that the author's well past that age.
Well, remember that "World of Poop" and "Butt Sex Is Awesome" were tried after the 7 dirty words, so I imagine he tried "C***sucking is for **gs", "How Can I F*** Up N***ers", and "****** **** ********** ***** Barbara Streisand" (sorry, South Park joke).
As for being named Lolita, yeah its ridiculous that they blocked a name because of its common usage by pedophiles. As you can see in the article, Dick wasn't blocked.
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