Ridiculous library censorship.

[nerfherder]

This past week I was out of town, and had to use a public library's computer. I made the mistake of writing on my novel on one of these computers, which apparently gave the thing's censoring program permission to edit my text. So here's a list of the often ridiculous words that the library thought needed to be censored. I want to see how many of them EN World thinks are inappropriate.

Ah, the old Shorpe Problem, named after AOL's filter that prevented British residents of Shorpe from subscribing back in 1996.

Similar problems for Peniston, Lightwater and Sussex.

[edit] er, Russ, ENW's filter can't cope with town names from North Lincolnshire...

 

[Jonny Nexus]

Ahhhh, cybercensors!

Just a few weeks ago, Jay Leno pointed out a conservative Christian newspaper's cybercensoring software edited one of their own stories.

In it, they reported the successful efforts of US sprinter Tyson Gay to qualify for the Olympics this year...

but they changed his name to "Tyson Homosexual." As in "Mr. Homosexual ran the race in near record time..." and so forth.

Yeah, that was awsome!

Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday.

His wind-aided 9.85 seconds was a fairly cut-and-dry performance compared to what happened a day earlier. On Saturday, Homosexual misjudged the finish in his opening heat and had to scramble to finish fourth, then in his quarterfinal a couple of hours later, ran 9.77 to break the American record that had stood since 1999. [...]

Homosexual didn't get off to a particularly strong start in the first semifinal, but by the halfway mark he had established a comfortable lead.... Asked how he felt, Homosexual said: "A little fatigued."