My 9 year old daughter is a major fan of Disney’s Club Penguin. She loves to go online in this virtual world, hanging out with her friends, updating her status and buying virtual items to trick out her igloo.
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Josie was sad this week when she attempted to login to Club Penguin and was denied access.
“A moderator has banned your account for 24 hours”
She asks her mom as she had no idea what the message meant or what she had done. Unsure either my wife contacted Club Penguin support. After validating that we were her parents (Club has decent parental controls where you can monitor access) the representative informed us that Josie was banned automatically from the system for using profanity in a status message.
What was the profanity? Josie had updated her status for Penguin with, “Quietly shits the door.”
Oops. I guess moderation tools aren’t able to account for accidental misspellings yet. It was an interesting conversation explaining to our daughter what this four letter word meant and why she was banned.
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