More surprising censorship

[Chris F Waigl]

Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
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> On Aug 11, 2007, at 8:05 AM, Ron Butters wrote:
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>> Surely this ["may c**k their collective heads in dismay"] is just a
>> joke.
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> not necessarily.  when i looked at the iTunes automatic asterisking
> scheme a year ago, *all* occurrences of "cock" (in song and album
> titles) were translated to "c**k", and automatic asterisking turns up
> on other websites.
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Even more mindless: "c*m sancto spiritu" and the like.

Chris Waigl

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