have you heard? microsoft applied for a patent on a real-time censor of audio streams and it recently went through. it’s supposed to recognize naughty words and mangle/bleep them in real-time as it passes through the system.

it’s intended for tv and radio broadcasts, like in interviews with… people with tourettes? andrew from top chef chicago?

this technology can get way out of hand. not just in terms of our own privacy, but the scariest thing is that we’ll no longer have awesome moments like these.

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