Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!garfield!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.news,net.ai,net.motss Subject: Re: The cost of moderating satellite News Message-ID: <1256@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 17:54:03 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.1256 Posted: Wed Jan 9 17:54:03 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Jan-85 12:38:46 EST References: <312@flame.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 13 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!)