Released just this week, the Zune HD Twitter app is already being updated after users criticized the application for automatically censoring any explicit words written by users in their Tweets. Perhaps more upsetting was the fact that there was no option to turn the censoring off.
The censoring is a new trick for a Twitter app, with more popular clients such as TweetDeck not even having ... [ read the full article ]
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It isn't just swears...if it is anything like newegg's censorship program, it goes way over the line.
For example, you cannot say "screwed" on newegg. This might make sence based on the sentence, "I just screwed my girlfriend", but it is a big pain in the *** when you want to write, "the card snapped off when I screwed it in".
It is just downright stupid...and all for what? Bad words? They don't remove the truly terrible words such as RIAA and MPAA.
Nothing beats a lil profanity every now and then :P
can they just make this an enable disable option instead however i dont use twitter nor will i ever. In saying that i was pretty sure i said the same thing about facebook :P
