Overreaction to word fragments has become epidemic in closed captioning of American TV shows. I've seen this on more than a dozen networks: captions will be ma

Overreaction to word fragments has become epidemic in closed captioning of American TV shows. I've seen this on more than a dozen networks: captions will be masked with Xs if any substring matches any possibly offensive word or phrase, e.g. XXXXtails for cocktails XXXume for assume XXXXX for spade (in the unmistakable context of a shovel, e.g. in "The African Queen") XXXX for coon (in the unmistakable context of a raccoon, e.g. in "True Grit") Doo-XXX for Doo-Wop (music) gimXXXX for gimmick sXXXpets for snippets Those are all actual examples from MeTV, H&I, Movies!, GetTV, etc.