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Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

#52

Hehe, who remembers Mary Whitehouse these days?

I do, and the Mary Whitehouse Experience.

It’s funny that Pink Floyd were having a go at MW back on Animals — she did a good job of getting under the skin of several decades of young people apparently.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

#53
post #7

It doesn't seem to censor the n-word. I would think it's pretty important to censor the n-word checked, failed to censor: n-word every word in this comic (nsfw for offensive words) https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-offenders/

Fag##t is also not censured. It is one of the core problems: Not enough diverse people involved in those projects, and the outcome is showing that the only thing "wrong" in calling someone "f###ing fag##t n#####r" is the first word, the two other ones are "fine" or "depends on context" as other mentioned in this thread. Go thoughts and intention, but needs support on execution.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

#56
Lol, like how when it loads you see the hidden text and then it disappears.

Another option might be better to process the text, swap out each letter with for example X — or even better a ID-key, then render the font you made.

If you used the ID-key, you could even encrypt each key, tag them by type (spoilers, swear words, personal info, etc) - though for obvious reasons that would require server-side code.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

#59
Many many years ago I wrote a sign up form (an app now I suppose) for a UK ISP, and we, I cannot remember who wanted the feature, write a simple blacklist of words that users should not be allowed to put in their addresses, and of course we whitelisted Scunthorpe (as well as several other rude placenames in the UK post office address file)

Just weird how the same things come round and round.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

#60
post #7

It doesn't seem to censor the n-word. I would think it's pretty important to censor the n-word checked, failed to censor: n-word every word in this comic (nsfw for offensive words) https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-offenders/

Fag##t is also not censured. It is one of the core problems: Not enough diverse people involved in those projects, and the outcome is showing that the only thing "wrong" in calling someone "f###ing fag##t n#####r" is the first word, the two other ones are "fine" or "depends on context" as other mentioned in this thread. Go thoughts and intention, but needs support on execution.

I think you’re taking this a little bit too seriously
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