{"id":62834,"date":"2015-03-25T14:42:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/censorship-row-over-clean-reader-app-that-takes-swear-words-out-of-ebooks\/"},"modified":"2015-03-25T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:42:42","slug":"censorship-row-over-clean-reader-app-that-takes-swear-words-out-of-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/censorship\/censorship-row-over-clean-reader-app-that-takes-swear-words-out-of-ebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Censorship row over Clean Reader app that takes swear words out of ebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, has lead      charge against censoring app              Said app was no different to suppression      of books      throughouthistory              Software blocks offensive words in      e-books, including the word 'damn'        <\/p>\n<p>    By Laura Cox for the Daily Mail  <\/p>\n<p>    Published: 18:38 EST, 24 March    2015 | Updated: 18:48 EST, 24 March    2015  <\/p>\n<p>      37 shares    <\/p>\n<p>      82    <\/p>\n<p>      View      comments    <\/p>\n<p>      Chocolat author Joanne Harris blasted the app, saying what      starts out with blanking out a few words ends with 'burning      libraries'    <\/p>\n<p>    As one person bluntly put, it is f******    horrifying.  <\/p>\n<p>    An app that blanks out swear words in e-books has    prompted outrage among writers including Chocolat author Joanne    Harris, who have accused it of censoring their work without    permission.  <\/p>\n<p>    Last night Mrs Harris, 50, took to her blog to write a    scathing critique of the Clean Reader application which has    been designed to help parents protect their children from    explicit content.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Go here to see the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3010197\/Censorship-row-child-friendly-app-takes-swear-words-ebooks-Writers-fury-editing-work-without-permission.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490\/RK=0\/RS=OIEbqWhuFlgP1qjDzh2Zz6QkGcs-\" title=\"Censorship row over Clean Reader app that takes swear words out of ebooks\">Censorship row over Clean Reader app that takes swear words out of ebooks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, has lead charge against censoring app Said app was no different to suppression of books throughouthistory Software blocks offensive words in e-books, including the word 'damn' By Laura Cox for the Daily Mail Published: 18:38 EST, 24 March 2015 | Updated: 18:48 EST, 24 March 2015 37 shares 82 View comments Chocolat author Joanne Harris blasted the app, saying what starts out with blanking out a few words ends with 'burning libraries' As one person bluntly put, it is f****** horrifying. An app that blanks out swear words in e-books has prompted outrage among writers including Chocolat author Joanne Harris, who have accused it of censoring their work without permission. Last night Mrs Harris, 50, took to her blog to write a scathing critique of the Clean Reader application which has been designed to help parents protect their children from explicit content.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/censorship\/censorship-row-over-clean-reader-app-that-takes-swear-words-out-of-ebooks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}