There’s a great episode of Family guy called PTV, basically Peter sets up his own television station after the FCC censor all sorts of things after someone has a wardrobe malfunction at the Emmy awards, Peter is aghast at the censorship, which includes Dick Van Dyke having Dick and Dyke blanked out. So where Family Guy treads, it seems Linden Lab follow, because I was discussing that very episode of Family Guy on the official forums and found that my post had been edited.
Yes, if you type Dick Van Dyke on the official forums the result is: **bleep** Van **bleep** …. I’m not making this up!
I would urge all at Linden Lab involved in word filters on the marketplace and the official forum to watch this episode of Family Guy to see how silly censorship can get and why their word filters are silly, I’ve discussed before how my Jira solution in telling someone that master and slave in a PG sense was causing their listing to be flagged as adult because slave is on the naughty word list, I still find it incredibly silly that we can’t point out potential false positives.
I wonder what would happen if Dick Van Dyke joined Second Life? Would his name be **bleep** Van **bleep**
Hopefully nobody on the forum wants to discuss building a dyke, or the story of the boy with his finger in the dyke (which is of course outrageous!), or mention anyone with the name Dick …
Really, protecting the not at all innocent eyes of most sixteen year olds shouldn’t go this far!
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