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Facebook: Created by Racist Sexual Predators
Facebook uses CAPTCHA’s (Completely Automated Public Turing Test’s) to protect against spam. I’m sure you’ve seen them. They’re those squiggly font things that pop up when you log onto your blogger profile, or into your favorite porn site.
Unlike most Turing Tests, Facebook’s reCAPTCHA technology generates real words. Because very occasionally these words can be mildly entertaining, I’ve never bothered verifying my account to make them go away. Yes, my life can be dull. Also, if you’re really lucky, a pair of offensive words sprouts up. Take this famous example:

So before that nice lady could be added as a friend by some random guy she went to high school with, he had to type in the phrase “rape now.”
But anyway, today - while adding an old co-worker to my friend list - I generated my own random mix of words. While my example is light on sexual violence, it more than makes up for it in old fashioned racism.

That’s all for now.
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