{"id":4747,"date":"2008-10-21T17:38:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4747"},"modified":"2008-10-21T17:38:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T16:38:38","slug":"microsoft-to-ban-freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/microsoft-to-ban-freedom-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to ban freedom of speech?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By James Sherwood<\/a><\/p>\n

Microsoft has come over all PC – gedddit?!?!? – by filing a patent application for technology that\u2019ll stop you from swearing online.<\/p>\n

In its \u201cAutomatic censorship of audio data for broadcast\u201d patent application<\/a>, the firm describes how a real-time or batch-mode automatic censor could be employed to filter out \u201cundesired words or phrases\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"MS'MS’ PC filter at work?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Exactly which products could make use of Microsoft’s PC-tech hasn’t been mentioned, but it\u2019s reasonable to assume that Xbox Live could be one of the software giant\u2019s primary targets.<\/p>\n

Microsoft stated that if, say, a gamer\u2019s words are likely to match those listed in its library of undesirable speech, the input audio data stream will be altered so that the offending word or phrase is made \u201cunintelligible or inaudible\u201d. The application also mentions automatic replacement of undesired words with acceptable words or phrases.<\/p>\n

Based on the description, it sounds like the technology will either change your portrayal of a rival gamer as a ‘d**k-faced, motherf***er’ to a ‘Richard, who was nice to his mum’, or just bleep it out altogether.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Microsoft hasn\u2019t listed a top ten of its most offensive words. But ‘red’, ‘ring’, ‘of’ and ‘death’ must be quite high up the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By James Sherwood Microsoft has come over all PC – gedddit?!?!? – by filing a patent application for technology that\u2019ll stop you from swearing online. In its \u201cAutomatic censorship of audio data for broadcast\u201d patent application, the firm describes how a real-time or batch-mode automatic censor could be employed to filter out \u201cundesired words or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[72],"class_list":{"0":"post-4747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sicence-technology","7":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}