I'm not quite sure what to make of this
New Clean Reader App Removes Obscenities From Books On Demand
If it's an "age appropriate" issue regarding removing objectionable language, I hate to break it to them, but taking out certain words does not suddenly make it age appropriate. There's could be themes that aren't appropriate, or even turns of phrase that aren't easily recognized as obscenities by a computer, but still objectionable.
Though I personally know a family who has one of the ClearPlay DVD players, which "cleans" content from DVDs, and it's the adults as much as the kids who want to use them for what they're watching. On the one hand, it bugs me a company can alter the content of a film of tv series without the creator's intent, but on the other, tv networks edit movies for content, time (even "compressing" films to make things faster without cutting a scene), etc. The only difference is I'm pretty sure the latter is part of the contract when it's created. The former is, from my understanding, a third party doing their own editing without consulting anyone involved in the creation of the video.
If it's an "age appropriate" issue regarding removing objectionable language, I hate to break it to them, but taking out certain words does not suddenly make it age appropriate. There's could be themes that aren't appropriate, or even turns of phrase that aren't easily recognized as obscenities by a computer, but still objectionable.
Though I personally know a family who has one of the ClearPlay DVD players, which "cleans" content from DVDs, and it's the adults as much as the kids who want to use them for what they're watching. On the one hand, it bugs me a company can alter the content of a film of tv series without the creator's intent, but on the other, tv networks edit movies for content, time (even "compressing" films to make things faster without cutting a scene), etc. The only difference is I'm pretty sure the latter is part of the contract when it's created. The former is, from my understanding, a third party doing their own editing without consulting anyone involved in the creation of the video.