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Kids' game adds 500-1000 words to its forbidden list every day

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Kids' game adds 500-1000 words to its forbidden list every day

Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008

The kid-centric online game Club Penguin (acquired by Disney last year) adds 500-1000 words a day to its list of forbidden chat-words in an effort to keep things clean. Wanna bet that kids come up with 2000-4000 new variant spellings a day? Merrifield also thinks that there is an over-reliance on technology that ignores the human element, which is why they've decided to devote two-thirds of the company's...

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News: MMO Week: Industry has been irresponsible with kids

GamesIndustry.biz (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008

Club Penguin's co-founder thinks the industry has treated children irresponsibly, leading to great cynicism

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Club Penguin's Ways…

Izzy Neis (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008

“I think one of the biggest challenges is the irresponsible nature with which our industry has taken care of kids for a long time - so there’s a great cynicism out there, and understandably so,” Merrifield told GamesIndustry.biz. “I’m a parent myself, and part of why we created Club Penguin was my own frustration with what [...]

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Club Penguin adds 1000 words a day to their filter

Raph's Website (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008

MMO Week: Industry has been irresponsible with kids // News // GamesIndustry.biz Merrifield also thinks that there is an over-reliance on technology that ignores the human element, which is why they've decided to devote two-thirds of the company's staff to positions such as safety moderators and customer service. “We know the limits of technology, even though I [...]