theodp writes "On Tuesday, the USPTO awarded Microsoft a patent for the Automatic Censorship of Audio Data for Broadcast, an invention that addresses 'producing censored speech that has been altered so that undesired words or phrases are either unintelligible or inaudible.' As an example, the patent notes the words 'God' and 'damn' might be replaced with the words 'gosh' and 'darn.' After all, there's nothing worse than being subjected to offensive speech when you're shooting someone in the head."
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I still find it odd that we have films like SAW (with blood literally dripping from the TV) that people enjoy - I mean actually enjoy as in find awesome, not enjoy as in enjoy horror - yet as soon as you see half a nipple on TV everyone screams 'CENSOR!'...
Seems to me censoring is only a way of protecting those who can't handle real life... we see a lot more tits and ass in life than we ever will of someone getting killed.
My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce
and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.
-- Senator Hubert Humphrey
Censoring is bullshit... (Score:1)