wordfilter

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Etymology[edit]

From word +‎ filter.

Noun[edit]

wordfilter (plural wordfilters)

  1. (computing) Software that monitors text input to chatrooms etc., deleting or modifying offensive language.
    • 2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends.

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