So last night I accidentally discovered that my son's typing toy has a swear word filter in it. This toy is about. The size of an old pda with a full keyboard and other buttons. It plays a buch of silly games as well as letting you write messages to your "pal". The messages you write don't go anywhere and aren't stored. If you write something that is filtered it beeps at you and erases it.
I spent like 20 minutes trying to determine the depth and breadth of the filtering. It hass all of the standard four letter words and their various varieties. It has all of the crude names for body parts including "butt". It also has all of the technical names for all reproductive organs including "ovaries". It matches hold words only. So you can write things like "cockroach".
It has a massive amount of words, counting all the different mutations of swear words and bodyparts. Just adding "face" at the end of everything adds a whole bunch ("buttface",s#!tface, etc...)
My real question is why??? What is the point of such extensive filtering? You can't send or store messages. What are they trying to prevent?
