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[News] Microsoft Patents Potentially-suppressive Trivial Idea

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Microsoft patents speech censoring

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| Microsoft has been awarded patent number 7,437,290 in which an input audio 
| data stream comprising speech is processed by an automatic censoring filter 
| in either a real-time mode, or a batch mode.   
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/20/microsoft-patents-censoring

Holy f**k, Microsoft covers up ‘undesired’ words

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| It's not entirely clear where Microsoft's interest in this technology lies. 
| But such a move could be looked upon favourably by the Chinese government, 
| which consistently attempts to censor much of the web.  
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/20/microsoft_bleeps_undesired_words_censorship/

Microsoft Patents Technology to Limit Your Freedoms

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| To those who are fans of Net Neutrality, and surrounding issues, such as DRM 
| and the limiting of our rights, it may come as no surprise that Microsoft 
| continues to champion against our rights of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of 
| Press.   
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http://vwbusguy.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/microsoft-patents-technology-to-limit-your-freedoms/

Microsoft: where Evil meets Technology.


Related:

Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems

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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to 
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files, 
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status 
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could 
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status 
| messages?     
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
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