I'm not suggesting anything, I believe I didn't make my point clearly enough or you misunderstood what I was saying.
The software wasn't differentiating among the terms, the guest was ignoring the obvious non-racial uses of other terms. For example, there are numerous listings for "Nig*er Head Soap" or the "Jolly Nig*er Banks." However, there was no instance of "Kike's Favorite Kosher Sausage" or "Dago Delight Spaghetti Sauce" or "Cracker Face Laundry Whitener". (Of course I made up those names to illustrate his same point.) The n-word has been used as a product name where other racial slurs have not. Get it? Bill Holt wrote: > I think the chances are, Rob, that you and "Tavis' guest" are screwing > something up. > > Think about it for a moment. You're suggesting that the software is not > only setup to block those terms but to differentiate between legitimate > usage and usage as a slur. As I recall, even Commander Data had problems > with that level of linguistic sophistication and it seems really, really > unlikely that Apple would spend a chunk of its R&D budget to do such a > thing. > > This smells like the birth of an urban legend. > > Bill Holt > > ---------- > >From: Rob Kersting <laffmakr at aye.net> > >To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > >Subject: Re: MacGroup: Safari Censorship? > >Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2003, 4:20 PM > > > > > > > <sigh>I'm sure that Tavis' guest also found Kike Dee, Mick Jagger, Cracker > > Barrel, and others, but reporting them as hits would be useless to the > > point of his story. As he reported, he found no uses of Kike, Mick, etc as > > racial slurs. > > > > His commentary said that racial slurs against African-Americans existed on > > eBay but he found nothing of the sort for other races. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
