Software, you have delighted us enough...
Sep. 15th, 2013 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceSo I'm following a forum discussion thread about the Sony Vaio Pro, aka the Laptop of Utterable Delights, and one of the incensed knotheads just made a thoroughly insensitive and frankly racist post which I rather wish a human moderator had simply deleted; but at the same time a less respectful part of me is giggling madly, because the overcautious moderation software in place has carefully edited a mention of Fukushima into ******shima. Which leaves the comment still racist and still offensive, but at the same time ridiculous.
Reminds me of my copy of George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, a paperback from the '50s: where the author's solemn discussion of the different uses of different swear-words on the street is rendered entirely meaningless by each word's being rendered only as asterisks.
Reminds me of my copy of George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, a paperback from the '50s: where the author's solemn discussion of the different uses of different swear-words on the street is rendered entirely meaningless by each word's being rendered only as asterisks.