Early in my career, before I moved to produce, I was a poultry buyer for a large distributor. I came into work one Monday and found I couldn’t access Tyson, Pierce or any of the big chicken companies out there, all sites were blocked by my company. Went to IT; they had added a new site blocker and it flagged those because they used the word “breasts” over and over. 🤦
If you are stupid enough to surf porn at work, you deserve to get fired. Kids are going to find a way to look at things on the net that are of interest to them regardless of any blockers put in place- they are crafty.
Surprised no one has mentioned You Tube live chat. Some keywords generate a silent timeout what hides the person using them.
One chat did this with the word 'Hello.' Since spammers often started their pitch with that word.
Another was 'suicide.' Volcanoes in populated areas generate silly behavior. One Icelandic volcano was a day trip near Reykjavik. People would clime up the side to get better view. This became known as 'Suicide Hill.' Then the offended complained, and the word was added to the blocking list.
Nowadays most live streams simply disable the live chat. Some do allow it with a subscribe or even a paid addition.
There is a lot of bypass language...
Bypass language is what some old people (like myself) frustratingly call normal conversation. It's like an overactive spam filter in my brain. "What's the word for the box in the kitchen we store our food to keep cold....Refrigerator!"
This is why using a scientific name is far better, although some old dogs still love to hear their whistles...
Agreed.
Bird flu, swine flu - not named after their locations.
The original SARS - not named after a location.
Spanish flu - first documented case was in Kansas, USA, so the name is a misnomer. In fact it was wartime censors that wanted to not have it be a US thing that said it originated in neutral Spain.
This is why using a scientific name is far better, although some old dogs still love to hear their whistles...
There's a lot of Francis's who can't handle that just maybe they aren't the center of the universe.
and @Dan S , naming conventions for viruses have included location in the past (as well as source). The naming convention changed recently. @lejaune , to essentially answer your statement about why it was so in the past. Two other examples I can think of fairly immediately are Zika virus and MERS, but there are dozens of other virus variants named after a location or animal origin.
Regarding "Wuhan flu..." There's no doubt that name was chosen both to marginalize the type of virus as well as to lay specific blame. I find calling it a "flu" in order to "downgrade " it fairly ironic, but it was probably done because of just how deadly SARS and MERS were.
Pff, you mean
Read 1984? Brave new world? Animal farm? Do you take them as a blueprints or a warnings? That where I draw the line, renaming everything to make it fit the modern narrative or The Message
Ok, so just to be clear, you said you draw the line at "renaming [things]" to make it fit "The Message." Do you not agree then, that a politician renaming Covid to "Wuhan flu" is exactly what you should be preaching against? You ask me if I have read 1984, so I then ask you, is not renaming a virus in this sort of fashion, not very similar to "2 minutes of hate?"
What is a "Francis?"
