Web Moderator Robots

[ddd999]

Microsoft patents web moderator robots

"Microsoft has just been awarded a patent for technology designed to automatically detect and remove “undesired words or phrases” from all manner of digital communications, ranging from YouTube broadcasts to internet chat and songs.
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That’s all to the good, as long as the targets are “trolls” (internet slang for people whose aim is to disrupt the web community). There’s a danger, though, that it could go too far. Who’s to say that an overzealous Microsoft employee might not accidentally on purpose blacklist the names of rivals such as Apple and Linux?

Worse, there are governments around the world that would probably go further still, suppressing dissent not with guns and clubs but by preventing people from even discussing concepts such as “protest” or “freedom”. And that, I’m sure you’ll agree, is a freaking scary idea. "

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[Gene Steinberg]

They also want to suppress the words "Apple," "Mac OS," "iPod," and "iPhone."

 

[Aaron LeClair]

Bill Gates is Gene's idol.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Bill Gates is Gene's idol.

In your dreams.

[composed on my iPhone]

 

[Aaron LeClair]

In your dreams.

[composed on my iPhone]

Here's some commercials you might like. I just heard Gates retired. You probably already know about that.

 

[ddd999]

Internet of the (not so distant) future will be sugar sweet, well behaved and 100% controlled, just like TV of today. This is one step closer to that future.
No more “wild west” (do what you want / say what you want) style bullshit….
* gets clubbed to death by moderator robots* …….

 

[Aaron LeClair]

Internet of the (not so distant) future will be sugar sweet, well behaved and 100% controlled, just like TV of today. This is one step closer to that future.
No more “wild west” (do what you want / say what you want) style bullshit….
* gets clubbed to death by moderator robots* …….

Nah, humans need the satisfaction of hitting a ban button on a troll themselves. Just as drum machines haven't replaced percussions, I don't think it will make things worse. Open up new options. How it's used depends on who's putting it to use. Which will vary.

 

[ddd999]

This just in:

October 29, 2008.

Australia to implement mandatory internet censorship

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AUSTRALIA will join China in implementing mandatory censoring of the internet under plans put forward by the Federal Government.
The revelations emerge as US tech giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, and a coalition of human rights and other groups unveiled a code of conduct aimed at safeguarding online freedom of speech and privacy.

The government has declared it will not let internet users opt out of the proposed national internet filter.

The plan was first created as a way to combat child pronography and adult content, but could be extended to include controversial websites on euthanasia or anorexia."
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"China exercises strict control over the internet, blocking sites linked to Chinese dissidents, the outlawed Falun Gong spiritual movement, the Tibetan government-in-exile and those with information on the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.

A number of US companies, including Microsoft, Cisco, Google and Yahoo, have been hauled before the US Congress in recent years and accused of complicity in building the "Great Firewall of China".

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[Aaron LeClair]

Aussies won't be able to watch porn? They have my sympathies. I mean I can understand filtering child porn, but regular? Please...