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    Post A Profanity Filter Banned the Word 'Bone' at a Paleontology Conference

    A Profanity Filter Banned the Word 'Bone' at a Paleontology Conference.

    Yep... you guessed it.... Participants in a virtual paleontology meeting were not permitted to use the words “bone,” “sexual,” or “Hell” in early digital Q&A sessions, sparking amusement and frustration from researchers attending the online conference. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) opted to hold its annual meeting, which runs from Monday to Friday this week, as a virtual event. At the end of presentations, attendees can ask written questions, but it quickly became apparent that some words and phrases—including many that are utterly ubiquitous in paleontology—were verboten.



    The platform that the virtual meeting used, provided by Convey Services, came with “a pre-packaged naughty-word-filter,” explained Stephanie Drumheller, a paleontologist at the University of Tennessee and a member of the SVP, in an r/askscience Reddit thread about the meeting on Wednesday.

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyza...tm_source=digg

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    LOL that's ludicrous.

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    That has to cause a lot of confusion.
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    Dirty, old, sick paleontologists!
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    The absolute state of this country

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