wordfilter

English

Alternative forms

• word filter

Etymology

From word +‎ filter.

Noun

wordfilter (plural wordfilters)

1. (computing) Software that monitors text input to chatrooms etc., deleting or modifying offensive language.
   • 2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends.

Translations

Translations

• Greek: υβρεοκλείδωμα (yvreokleídoma) (το), neuter