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CIA and BTHV collaborate to end cursing on the web, starting at Twitter

patrick Written on July 10, 2008 – 1:23 am
Patrick de Laive, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of The Next Web Conference

Apparently the CIA and the BTHV (Bond Tegen Het Vloeken - meaning Association Against Cursing) joined forces to end Cursing on the web.

A representative of the BTHV, and former employee of the CIA told us: “We should all stop █████ing cursing, especially on the █████ing web, since that is so █████ing viral that young and innocent people might copy the unappropriated behaviour. Therefore we came up with a spider to find all █████ing curse word and we insert, what is now known as ‘the black █████ing box’. We are confident that this will lead to the end of cursing on the web and eventually to the end of cursing in general. You can imagine how enthusiastic and proud we are of this mother█████ing great technology”

The first website that was “uncursed” / “black █████ing boxed” was twitter.

Check it out:

Do you think this is a wise decision of these two associations? let us know, and please…. mind your words.

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4 comments/trackbacks to “CIA and BTHV collaborate to end cursing on the web, starting at Twitter”

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  1. By Zack on Jul 10, 2008

    Funny! I’ve been seeing this today on Twitter and obviously it’s not the CIA, but how and why are people doing this?

    Very curious!

    Best regards,
    -Zack

    PS- check this self (I imagine)-censored tweet by Kevin Rose about some new thing coming from Apple . . .

    http://twitter.com/kevinrose/statuses/854100977

    [Reply]

  2. By █████man on Jul 10, 2008

    Lol ████

    [Reply]

  3. By vaske on Jul 10, 2008

    but how and people do this???

    [Reply]

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