We got a good laugh over censorship a few nights ago.
We were watching old programs on METV with the closed captions on. We noticed that some words had parts of them Xd out.
The first one we noticed was tyxxxx which turned out to be tycoon. Then the butler’s name was partially Xd out, xxxxens.
That was Dickens, the butler. Another was the word suspicious. That one took me a while to figure out. It was suxxxxious. They had Xd out the S-P-I-C in the middle of the word!
That’s funny. I used to comment on a website that had censorship software to keep things nice and clean. It wouldn’t let me say “Nigeria.” I had to say, “a large, Anglophone, African country where a major city is Lagos.”
The MeTV automatic close caption algorithms are so aggressively censoring four letter words and other politically correct offensive words it can be very amusing. I once saw it render the oral introduction of “The Dick van Dyke Show” as “The XXXX van XXXX Show” and the words “suspicion” (your example) and “cocktail” on Perry Mason as “suXXXXion” and XXXXtail”. I saw a western where a fellow was warned “don’t XXXX that gun where they can hear you”… and an old movie where a child was talking about petting her cat, which came out “petting my cute little XXXXX cat…”