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This reminds me of a story from a previous era of automated content moderation... When I was a student at the University of Cincinnati, I was a member of a gro
by api 5y ago
This reminds me of a story from a previous era of automated content moderation...
When I was a student at the University of Cincinnati, I was a member of a group called LARC which stood for Laboratory for Recreational Computing. The main purpose of LARC was to get the University of Cincinnati to subsidize our yearly trip to DEFCON, but I digress.
The UC mail servers, or at least the ones where the LARC mailing list was hosted, had some kind of stupid search and replace censorship to replace naughty words with cleaner equivalents. The cleaner equivalents were in ALL CAPS of course.
So a few members of LARC were working on a project to build a classical arcade cocktail table game out of Linux and MAME and some other stuff. I don't remember the details. All I remember is that the mail server transformed this into the "MALE GENITALIAtail table".
This became its official name. I think the MALE GENITALIAtail table was eventually installed in the student union.