{"id":1738,"date":"2015-03-15T22:04:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T03:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2015-03-15T22:04:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T03:04:22","slug":"new-app-alters-e-books-to-block-objectionable-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1738","title":{"rendered":"New app alters e-books to block &#8220;objectionable content&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Clean Reader app for iOS and Android released recently. This program blocks profanity from e-books by taking out the offending word and replacing it with a &#8220;cleaner&#8221; alternative or by simply leaving a blank space. Although the word is viewable by tapping the space, the goal of the app is to rewrite text. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanreaderapp.com\/faqs\/\">From their website:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clean Reader prevents swear words in books from being displayed on your screen. You decide how clean your books should appear and Clean Reader does the rest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A cursory look through the app found that it didn&#8217;t automatically block GLBT-related terms at this time, though the app does have mixed results in achieving its target goal. In one title I tested, a character named &#8220;Dick&#8221; had their name changed to &#8220;groin.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The Clean Reader app for iOS and Android released recently. This program blocks profanity from e-books by taking out the offending word and replacing it with a &#8220;cleaner&#8221; alternative or by simply leaving a blank space. Although the word is viewable by tapping the space, the goal of the app is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}