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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.ai,net.motss
Subject: Re: The cost of moderating satellite News
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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 17:54:03 EST
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Screened by a computer program to decide if a human moderator (=censor)
is required?  Either the prudes are lightyears ahead of us in AI, else
they'll simply force us to use euphemisms to frustrate searches for
"keywords" (locutions like "the love that dare not speak its name" for
homosexuality); or will they dump The Quean's Vernacular into their
database, accelerating the creation of new slanguage.

The only way to defeat such a counterreaction is to proscribe entire
classes of nouns, verbs, etc. (OED goes into the database).  This is
precisely what happens in Orwell's 1984.  

				Nicefeels doublegood,
				Ron Rizzo (This ISN'T my real name!)