A patent for 'Automatic Censorship', submitted by Microsoft (who else?). No way this could be misused, right? [hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]"Microsoft is back at the USPTO, this time seeking a patent for the [a href="vny!://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060095262%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060095262&RS=DN/20060095262"]automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast[/a], a system and method for automatically altering audio to prevent undesired words and phrases from being understandable to a listener as originally uttered."
