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Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last,... by 1cvmask on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:23PM (#25392218)
Guess this meme will be buried for good then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz–Zodiac_Killer_meme

Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last,... by reitzensteinm on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:40PM (#25392478)
I am genuinely surprised I haven't seen an authentic looking long form troll video that methodically decodes the cipher and reveals at the finale text including "I am the soon to be born Ted Cruz".
Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last,... by crispyporkbites on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:50PM (#25392619)
> That month, "is ted cruz the zodiac killer" was the second highest suggestion in Google's autocomplete for "is ted", but by April it was not in the autocomplete at all.[1][5] News.com.au writer Matthew Dunn suggested that Google was censoring the search term, showing evidence that it accounted for 89% of total searches when compared to other terms in the autocomplete

How often does google censor autocomplete? Does apple do this on their keyboard as well?

Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last,... by schoen on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:19PM (#25393002)
Google seemingly does this a lot (although I don't know if it's included in their transparency report or if anyone has tried to measure it -- both of which would be nice). You can report predictions as "inappropriate" (look at the lower right of a prediction list in a desktop browser) and you'll see something like

  Which predictions were inappropriate?
  [...]

  The predictions selected above are:
  Irrelevant
  Violence or gore
  Sexually explicit, vulgar, or profane
  Hateful against groups
  Sensitive or disparaging for individuals
  Dangerous or harmful activity
  Other
If Google agrees with the complaint, the prediction could be removed regardless of the popularity of the underlying search.
Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last,... by gowld on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:03PM (#25393489)
It's censored in Google search, not keyboard.
Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last,... by Anon4Now on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:31PM (#25393133)
He tweeted out "uh oh" today at the news, so it might live on.
Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last,... by EE84M3i on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:33PM (#25394335)
Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last,... by bzb6 on Friday December 11, 2020 @09:00PM (#25394575)
I almost feel bad at the replies. They look like they were written by people whose job is to look at Twitter all day.
Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last,... by halturing on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:14PM (#25395062)
Yeah that's a job that's almost as bad as yours!
Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last,... by setpatchaddress on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:27PM (#25392277)
Nah. Ted Cruz is still the most likely candidate.