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."

Option

[rocket97]

It should be an option, not a requirement.

Who cares?

[jamesl]

... but this kind of active content censorship just rubs me the wrong way.

Then don't use it.

Twitter is stupid anyway

[Alanonfire]

so who cares?

Re:Zune + HD + twitter?

[Anonymous Coward]

I am not a "Fanboi" but where do you get that the Zune is a crappy MP3 player? The only people that I hear that from are Apple Zealots who have never even tried the Zune. I tried one of my friends 2nd gen ones (pre HD) and I loved it. It had some features that I wish my iPod had on it that Apple stole in the latest release of the iPod, FM radio for example.

Re:No toggle?

[megamerican]

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.

Re:Censored Tweet

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do you want to hook it up to your mom rather than your computer?

Re:Option

[Clover_Kicker]

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.

Re:Ugh...

[blai]

How did you know my p***word?