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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I hear the alhorithm's not all that sophisticated. It'll mangle things like spotted dick, but allow unclef***er to slide through unscathed. How fun is that?
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Y'know, really, the biggest issue is...it IS the slippery slope, isn't it? (And, FWIW, I, like at least two of the responding authors, don't believe that story as to how the app came to be, not for a moment.) I mean, okay, you don't want your kid to hear the F word, so you blank it out. What about consensual sex between unmarried adults? Will that scene be "blanked" out, or worse, replaced by some scene where the bed has a bundling board down the middle? Will a hot romance be replaced with a tepid married bit?
I mean, crap, *I* find the blankness and non-existence and irrelevance of the Twilight main character OFFENSIVE. That she has no worth, no value, no friends, no hobbies, no interests, no nuttin', until two "alpha males" want her. Oh, THEN she's valuable.
Where's MY APP? Where's the app that makes her a strong, independent female, that has an
actual life, who doesn't feel the need to be married when she's 16, knocked up instantly, and throwing her entire life away on some pedo vamp? (Seriously? Who the hell could be hundreds of years old and be interested in a 16-y.o. for more than a romp? C'mon, didn't he learn the art of conversation in decades of high school?). Where's the one that makes her class valedictorian, Honor student, member of the school newspaper? Where's the one where she tells the vamp to drop dead, so to speak?
For that matter, where's the one for all those team other-guy people out there? The ones that wanted the other supe dude to get her? Aren't they OFFENDED that Edward was the "winner?"
You get my point. I'm not kidding when I say I find the whole Bella Swan character
utterly offensive. Why is my "offended" so much less REAL than some parent in bohunk who finds the F word offensive? What about all the OTHER things that people can get their noses bent about? Homosexuality? Lack of homosexuality? (Where's the app that turns Edward and whoseiwhatsis into girls, or the one that turns Bella into Bill????). Where's the one that means I don't have to have a brain aneurysm about bad writing, while we're at it? The auto-editor, so I am not tortured?????
Y'all aren't given this enough thought. You really aren't. Where does the "offensive content filter" stop?
Hitch