It's a bumfuggler, Rob. I searched for all the words using three different browsers (iCab, Mozilla and IE5) and got different results, usually, with each browser! Repeat searches commonly got a different answer on the second try, and more repetitions moved toward a common number of finds.
---------- >From: Rob Kersting <laffmakr at aye.net> >To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >Subject: Re: MacGroup: Safari Censorship? >Date: Sat, Mar 29, 2003, 8:25 PM > > 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>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
