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Is a stupidity filter even possible?

by Matthew Stibbe on December 28, 2007

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The StupidFilter Project plans to create a filter that will do for idiotic online content what spam filters do for junk mail.

You can’t download it yet and I wonder whether it is a bit of a spoof. We’ll see.

But I like their chutzpah, whether it is a fake or not. Here’s an excerpt from their FAQ:

Isn’t filtering stupidity elitist?

Yes. Yes, it is. That’s sort of the whole point.

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Owen Booth December 31, 2007 at 9:52 am: Here’s xkcd’s take on the same thing:

http://xkcd.com/202/

Of course, their next step it to start filtering for corporatespeak…

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Don December 31, 2007 at 4:39 pm: That’s funny. I wonder if they’ll allow user-created filters. Imagine an internet where you can filter out words you don’t like to read.

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