Smut filter

Office anthropology™ →Go uptown From: postmaster@wickliffe-hampton.com Sent: 04 October 2021 16:10 To: Dan.Grade@wickliffe-hampton.com Subject: [Postmaster] Content Alert Notification This is a content alert notification message. The message indicated below matches content alert policies set by the system administrator(s). Message information: Sender: Kaylene.Trengle@gmail.com Intended Recipient: Dan.Grade@wickliffe-hampton.com Message Subject: Contract execution Message Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 16:09:56 +0100 Message Status: The message has been placed on HOLD with action required. Content Policies Triggered: Policy (Profanity Content Filtering) Found term [“shit”] in BODY_TEXT, score is 1 Number of hits for this term: 1 Matched text: shit Found term [“shit”] in BODY_HTML, score is 1 Number of hits for this term: 1 Matched text: shit Found term [\ss\s?h\s?i\s?t\s] in BODY_TEXT, score is 1 Number of hits for this term: 1 Matched text: shit The JC puts on his pith-helmet, grabs his butterfly net and a rucksack full of marmalade sandwiches, and heads into the concrete jungleIndex: Click ᐅ to expand: Work anthropology Tell me more Sign up for our newsletter — or just get in touch: for ½ a weekly 🍺 you get to consult JC. Ask about it here.

Literally, you cannot make this shit up. The captioned message came back from a message is all that got through of a message which, confessedly, did contain the word “shit”. No objections, I guess — prudes gonna be prudes — and what good would the machines of loving grace be if they couldn’t at least supercharge corporate primness? — but how that puritan end is met by stripping out and binning all the clean words, and saving up, amplifying and telegraphing the only “profane” one, repeatedly, at the poor fragile recipient whose delicate sense of decency the smutbot was presumably defending in the first place, we can can only speculate.

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