[Yr11 Information Technology] Racial discrimination in my exam (??)

[Greyruin]

My biggest laugh was quite a few years ago, now, when the DEET (as it 
was in those days) "Website of the Week" was filtered because it came 
from "AccessExchange" which contains a very dangerous substring. Anyway, 
I guessed wrong this time, because my email was not bounced.

Regards, have a good break
Greg Durkin

On 1/07/2012 4:18 PM, Mark KELLY wrote:
> Hi Greg. I'm not concerned so much as amused. But when robots start 
> telling us what is appropriate and what is not, I start to worry.
>
> (Like the good people of Scunthorpe who have been filtered out of 
> existence...)
>
> On 29 June 2012 21:18, Greyruin <greyruin at gdurkin.com 
> <mailto:greyruin at gdurkin.com>> wrote:
>
>     It is very likely that the "offensive" content was this line in Q6:
>
>     "To be eligible to enter 'The Aussie Adult Club' a person has to
>     be 21 or older, and be Australian. "
>
>     The rationale, "Racism", just comes from the heading on the filter
>     list. The filter may contain anything. The word "Adult", in
>     conjunction with certain other words such as "Entertainment",
>     "Film", "Literature" and, possibly "Club" could trigger a
>     filtration rule.  I wouldn't be too concerned about it - it's just
>     a poorly designed robot, isn't it.
>
>     It will be interesting to see if this post gets bounced.
>
>     Regards,
>     Greg Durkin
>
>
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