New Gun Myths

[OtherMichael]

Ooooh, wouldn’t that be a useful addition?

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NO IT DOES AND WILL NOT

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Coincidentally, @LDoBe and I were talking about that issue in the Huffing thread earlier this year:

Huffing Boing Boing

That’s arguable. We, as programmers or non-, can certainly envision bots that coldly calculate equations dealing with death destruction, images of swastikas, explosions, executions, &c. If we have a news-manipulating bot, should we keep the bot from manipulating these images? Should we bar it from using certain words that may show up organically, but in awkward contexts (n1**er1 or gay or whatever)? I’ve used the wordfilter module on a few bots, I’ve also whitelisted some of the words. See …