June 30, 200818 yr Active Members (Note: Story has since been corrected.) The Dangers of Auto-Replace In addition to blocking traffic from websites they don’t like, it looks like the web-geniuses behind the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site have a few other tricks up their sleeves, such as automatically replacing any use of the word “gay†with the word “homosexual†in any of the AP stories they run … leading to instances in which proper names are reformatted to meet their ridiculous standard, such as this article about sprinter Tyson Gay winning the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in which he is renamed “Tyson Homosexualâ€. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/0...gers_of_1.html
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