Comments on: Nick Jr. Discriminates Against Christians!!! http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/12/16/nick-jr-discriminates-against-christians/ Religion, Politics, and other offensive stuff Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:11:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tim http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/12/16/nick-jr-discriminates-against-christians/comment-page-1/#comment-994 Tim Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:06:22 +0000 http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/?p=497#comment-994 well now we can say f**k, sex, and of course our catholic words on nick jr. the filter must have been removed all together. well now we can say f**k, sex, and of course our catholic words on nick jr. the filter must have been removed all together.

]]> By: sandra http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/12/16/nick-jr-discriminates-against-christians/comment-page-1/#comment-993 sandra Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:02:11 +0000 http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/?p=497#comment-993 interesting that some jewish and muslim words are on the bad list and some are on the good list. are they only halfway discriminating against judaism and islam. interesting that some jewish and muslim words are on the bad list and some are on the good list. are they only halfway discriminating against judaism and islam.

]]> By: Nathan http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/12/16/nick-jr-discriminates-against-christians/comment-page-1/#comment-992 Nathan Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:54:20 +0000 http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/?p=497#comment-992 I'm only responding to this as someone who has had to try to do filters - and I've only done it for adults, not kids. I'm not condoning what this does, but it boils down more to laziness mostly and not ill intent. They're matching substrings and not whole words... so, the word "mass" contains the word "ass", so it's blocked. And if ANYTHING that you type matches a word in their "bad word list", the whole thing gets blocked. Christmas - root "Christ", probably on 'swear' list. Jesus - probably on 'swear' list. Pope - no clue. Mass - root 'ass' President Bush -contains 'bush', slang for female crotch. Crotch blocked as wel laughing George Washington - contains 'wash' which is for some reason blocked. Tax cut - the word 'cut' is blocked. Talk Radio - the word 'alk' is blocked. No clue. pro-life - anything with a dash in it seems to be blocked and for the record 'english-only' is blocked too George - 'org' is blocked. They most likely have 2 lists, a 'bad word' list and a 'protect the children' list. It's for kids. They're lazy. They don't think anyone will notice. To prove it, their own NAME is blocked, because 'nick' is blocked, similar to cut. I just don't want to set a bad precedent with them, as it's easy to write stuff off as "oh, those crazy Catholics!", especially when they get all this backlash from something silly. Then when something really IS wrong, we'll be ignored. My 2 cents. I’m only responding to this as someone who has had to try to do filters – and I’ve only done it for adults, not kids. I’m not condoning what this does, but it boils down more to laziness mostly and not ill intent. They’re matching substrings and not whole words… so, the word “mass” contains the word “ass”, so it’s blocked. And if ANYTHING that you type matches a word in their “bad word list”, the whole thing gets blocked.

Christmas – root “Christ”, probably on ’swear’ list.

Jesus – probably on ’swear’ list.

Pope – no clue.

Mass – root ‘ass’

President Bush -contains ‘bush’, slang for female crotch. Crotch blocked as wel laughing

George Washington – contains ‘wash’ which is for some reason blocked.

Tax cut – the word ‘cut’ is blocked.

Talk Radio – the word ‘alk’ is blocked. No clue.

pro-life – anything with a dash in it seems to be blocked and for the record ‘english-only’ is blocked too

George – ‘org’ is blocked.

They most likely have 2 lists, a ‘bad word’ list and a ‘protect the children’ list. It’s for kids. They’re lazy. They don’t think anyone will notice. To prove it, their own NAME is blocked, because ‘nick’ is blocked, similar to cut. I just don’t want to set a bad precedent with them, as it’s easy to write stuff off as “oh, those crazy Catholics!”, especially when they get all this backlash from something silly. Then when something really IS wrong, we’ll be ignored.

My 2 cents.

]]> By: Tim http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/12/16/nick-jr-discriminates-against-christians/comment-page-1/#comment-990 Tim Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:01:12 +0000 http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/?p=497#comment-990 Benedict was blocked, John Paul II was not. Neither were the words abortion, porn, and homosexual. However I did find a loophole: type it in Latin and it works (unless of course you type 'homo', as in 'homo factus est'). Benedict was blocked, John Paul II was not. Neither were the words abortion, porn, and homosexual. However I did find a loophole: type it in Latin and it works (unless of course you type ‘homo’, as in ‘homo factus est’).

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