[Yr11 Information Technology] Racial discrimination in my exam (??)

[Roland Gesthuizen]

A certain senior dept email was filtered by heuristic filters because it used the trigger words longer lasting, money saving, what we need, relationships, growth, bigger etc. You get the idea.

I must admit to laughing when schools try and "value add" to an existing dept filters with their own layer. Some of you may be surprised to know who sets up these Internet filters.  It may have soncesince changed but predominantly was based on work by groups based in Utah and Florida.

Stufdents at my school speak over 40 languages at home. How many of this is filtered? Gets more complicated, if ask for a tradesman in my native Dutch, most of you would frown at what would pass my lips. At what point do we clean up our language and words? If context is important, then let a skilled local educator who is passively supervising decide.

Roland

On 01/07/2012, at 5:32 PM, Greyruin <greyruin at gdurkin.com> wrote:

> My biggest laugh was quite a few years ago, now, when the DEET (as it was in those days) "Website of the Week" was filtered because it came from "AccessExchange" which contains a very dangerous substring. Anyway, I guessed wrong this time, because my email was not bounced.
> 
> Regards, have a good break
> Greg Durkin
> 
> On 1/07/2012 4:18 PM, Mark KELLY wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Greg. I'm not concerned so much as amused. But when robots start telling us what is appropriate and what is not, I start to worry.
>> 
>> (Like the good people of Scunthorpe who have been filtered out of existence...)
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>> On 29 June 2012 21:18, Greyruin <greyruin at gdurkin.com> wrote:
>> It is very likely that the "offensive" content was this line in Q6:
>> 
>> "To be eligible to enter ‘The Aussie Adult Club’ a person has to be 21 or older, and be Australian. "
>> 
>> The rationale, "Racism", just comes from the heading on the filter list. The filter may contain anything. The word "Adult", in conjunction with certain other words such as "Entertainment", "Film", "Literature" and, possibly "Club" could trigger a filtration rule.  I wouldn't be too concerned about it - it's just a poorly designed robot, isn't it.
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>> It will be interesting to see if this post gets bounced.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Greg Durkin
>> 
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