What you shouldn't say in public the Voice command app will remove.
The Voice command app does not remove what you shouldn't say in public. The Voice command app does remove
what Microsoft thinks you shouldn't say. Are we approaching a society in which a consortium of private companies (maybe Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and why not also Amazon, Walmart etc) decides on which kind of language is suitable for our private communication?
I don't understand why Microsoft has taken it upon themselves to decide what gets removed. It opens them up to some public ridicule.
I do hope that you don't mean me with that comment, since my posts weren't ridiculing. My statements expressed my concern about Microsoft's arrogation to infringe civil rights to communicate how we would like to within given legal limits.
As a moderator on this forum we have to remove offensive commentary all of the time.
The difference is that this forum IS public, accessible world-wide. Private communication via your smartphone isn't.
IMHO... There is nothing wrong with Microsoft taking a stand for public morality.
Microsoft doesn't take a stand for public morality and nothing would qualify or entitle them to do so. Since you are approving Microsoft's censorship: Why not expand that kind of snooping into people's private way of life to the Windows computer OS with the same argument? If it is for "public morality" (I didn't know that Microsoft is the authority to define what this is): How about to block emails containing strong language? Just as an example.. A talk with people living in totalitarian regimes in which moral guardians control them might be helpful to understand the far-reaching scale of Microsoft's behaviour.
Remember if you need to use the F-word you can always type it yourself. It only becomes censorship when you are blocked from the act.
You are subject to censorship as soon as the (technical) system prerequisites for censorship have been created/established. You won't find any obscenity in my language, by the way.
What Microsoft should do is make public a set of user rules that way people know what to expect.
And especially they should make it possible to deactivate that censorship function.