The good news: One intrepid blogger offers up a massive cut-and-paste Gmail filter operator that corrals and archives non-English messages. The bad news: It only works when spammers are semi-honest.

I don't know what I did to deserve it, but I've recently been hit with an overwhelming flood of foreign-language (primarily Russian) spam. I can't even read these emails, so I have no idea what the ...

Microsoft's language filter on Xbox Live is strangling the linguistic skills of Quarrel players, banning such words as "help," "train," "balls" and "shaft" from being played. While we can understand ...

With the release of patch 4.3, players have been plagued by one of the worst bugs in WoW history*. There you are, sitting in guild chat, when that guy shows up. You load up you chat input box with ...

Steam users will soon be able to have more control over their conversations, as Valve has begun testing out new private chat filters that can block offensive language, slurs, and other strong ...

Ubisoft has been expanding the game’s features that prevent toxicity with continued updates and new systems like a feature that automatically banned people for using inappropriate language. According ...

Newegg users can now give their name as "Mohammad" when leaving reviews, because apparently they couldn't do that before. The online tech retailer is revising its language filter after it was called ...

Is there any chance of adding an optional foul language filter (set in user preferences) to this forum software? You know, something that would change "fvck" to "f***ing," for example. Personally, I ...