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Microsoft patents web moderator robots

Microsoft has just been awarded a patent for technology designed to automatically detect and remove “undesired words or phrases” from all manner of digital communications, ranging from YouTube broadcasts to internet chat and songs.

The patent describes a system that listens out for phonemes (word fragments) likely to be part of a swearword. If it thinks it hears a forbidden phrase, the software either fades out the offending syllables or simply replaces the rude word with a similar-sounding but clean alternative lifted from earlier speech without a second’s delay. M$

Steaming past Macedonia

US rockets up 12 places in press freedom rankings - to 36th in the world. via Digby.

Last year's performance was noted here.

Scared police is no police

While Cindy McCain and the Republicans inside the RNC shat dimes for the proleptically unfortunate of Lousiana (and admired themselves for so doing), US journalists were getting beaten, robbed and incarcerated by USian polizei in St. Paul.

• Secret Service ripped press credentials from the necks of legitimate journalists with high-level passes to the convention, and walked away, ignoring requests for ID, receipts.
  
• Minnesota Police advised the journalists to not be present in the streets, but to spy on the demos from afar, through telephoto lenses.
• Police removed batteries from journalists' cameras.

Scared police is no police.