What’s the policy and future plans for vulgarities? Offensive words and phrases are a part of the common tongue and how many people communicate, but I haven’t seen any at all when recording. Even worse than that, there’s a facility to report language that is even “disrespectful”, presumably so it can be purged.
Does this mean that Mozilla will be enforcing standards of taste and decency on what can and can’t be spoken to machines?
To take a couple of extreme examples… I’m British with family in Scotland, so the “c-word” is not very offensive to me or those around me, and it’s the sort of word I’d unflinchingly use in a group chat. Among England’s working class it’s an ungendered term for a spiteful or vindictive person, while in Scotland or Australia it’s actually synonymous with “friend”. In America on the other hand, it’s an extremely offensive, misogynistic term that I’m sure most people wouldn’t want to be exposed to let alone record.
Similarly, as a white man I can’t even type the N-word, but I wouldn’t want to dissuade black people (or anyone else for that matter) from being able to use it.
The c-word is my word, the n-word isn’t, and presumably both of them strongly contrast with Mozilla’s culture. Will Mozilla be inclusive enough to take a liberal stance on this, or is the culture of progressive-imperialism too strong?
Are there plans to incorporate vulgarities, maybe via their own language sets or as extensions, tagging words and phrases etc?