Smut filter

Office anthropology™

From: postmaster@wickliffe-hampton.com[1]
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

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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”[2] 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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  1. Names have been changed to protect non-fungible identities
  2. Quaint, right?