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>.
