Zune HD Twitter App Censors Tweets For You! 155
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."
Language bias? (Score:3, Interesting)
Naughty words in which language? Only English?
Re:Option (Score:2, Interesting)
TFA also complains that the app is slow. Well, if you're searching all text input for a dictionary of naughty words on a underpowered embedded CPU, the fact that it turns out slow is not a surprise.
Know what rubs me the wrong way? (Score:4, 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.
Re:Option (Score:4, 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.
Re:Twitter - What's the point again? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Option (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Know what rubs me the wrong way? (Score:3, Interesting)
Fair enough. I guess I should've realized the editors might be trying to add value again; I'm just so used to them doing nothing at all that I hadn't considered they might be making matters worse.