January 9, 2013
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Yahoo Censorship
So I have been leaving comments on Yahoo for years, and apparently they have some automatic censorship that occurs there. Whenever one types the F-bomb it comes out as @#$%(), or something like that. Not that I have ever typed that before, but I have observed the different ways that people try to get around it, and I have been able to infer what the original words were due to context clues. Now there are other “curse words” which are not censored, and then apparently there are some words which are not considered dirty but are still censored.
For example, one time I tried to refer to Boehner as “Boner,” and Yahoo automatically replaced it with gobillygork. Seriously? Boner? So they can put up articles with pictures of men making out with men, and Lady Gaga doing her weirdness, and they can talk about sex and all sorts of other things but they are going to blank out boner? Why? Now it is true that traditionally “boner” refers to an erection, but it has also come to be used to be used as a synonym for idiot or stupid person. But, even if I meant it in the original sense, why sensor it? That makes no kind of sense, and one of the reasons there are so many synonyms for sexual things is because people find it awkward to express certain things sometimes.
A comment I left yesterday also got censored. I was leaving a comment about some anti-Semitic politician or appointee (can’t remember which), and all I said was that the neo-nazis would be pleased. I went back to check the ratings and comments on my comment and Yahoo had changed it to neo@&*()#*, or something like that. So now they are censoring the term Nazi? Things are looking more like Soviet Russia every day.
“No comrade, you can’t say that.”
“But what about for purposes of comparison and analogy?”
“No comrade.”
“But we are talking about history and stuff that actually happened.”
“No comrade, there is no history except for what government says there is. Now you shut up or we send you to goolag and you mine coal until teeth fall out.”
I don’t care whose feelings get hurt, or whose delicate sensibilities they think they are protecting. Sensoring words like that only mitigates the exchange of information. But that’s what it’s really all about for these people. They don’t want you to know anymore than they think is safe (for their leaders) for you to know. This is like a little dose of “1984″ with “badspeak” and people working to reduce the amount of words that are used.
Comments (5)
I agree about Boehner.
@DrummingMediocrity - Yea, I wasn’t being insulting I was being descriptive. BTW, they also censor out “crap” apparently. I suppose they have to keep doing all that until the left succeeds in making it illegal to say mean things.
Rick noted to me a while back that they censer. Once he saw an article about Michelle Obama that put her in an unfavorable light. About ten minutes later that article was nowhere to be found.
@mtngirlsouth - Probably the author also got fired. You know what the most disgusting thing about the liberal media is? They do it for free, and without being forced. At least the media in North Korea doesn’t have a choice, but the media here has no reason to do what they do, and every responsibility NOT to. By that I mean they are supposed to be holding these people responsible and cutting them down to size, but instead they run free propaganda for them and cover up their dirt.
@mtngirlsouth - I didn’t know that. Very disturbing