Not enough for the beceri choirs that almost every Sunday or on any turn during the week of the series, echo in the stadiums in italy, starting with that of Juventus in Turin to spread like wildfire throughout the Peninsula. “Vesuvius, wash with fire” is the song most hated by the fans of Napoli, in the past, as a terrible mockery, they were the same leitmotiv by typing the word “Vesuvius” on the devices of Apple.
Just write the name of the volcano in campania within the notes as well as in the Whatsapp messages, in the mail or at the edge of the screen, which shows the following suggested wording: “wash”, “col” and “fire”. Basically, the phrase that makes up the irritating banter. A phenomenon discovered and reported by the tenant of his popular sport program “Radio Goal”, Valter De Maggio, on the frequencies of Radio Kiss Kiss. A last straw for a vessel already filled and sent on a rampage the neapolitan fans. In the hundreds have unleashed with the comments, the most varied on the social. So much so that on Twitter, launched the hashtag #AppleVesuvio to protest against the company from Cupertino and ask her to change immediately the suggestions of the so-called “keyboard predictive”.
“I Want to explain how it works, – has told De May – the keyboard predictive algorithm, creates a local dictionary, and acquires from the web the most frequent words, most used a term more is suggested. We did some tests, we have also included other terms and neologisms not asked to appear. If I write ball story, if I write the Vesuvius, he must leave Naples, do not wash with fire. In a historical moment in which it tries to raise awareness on the topic of racism, this cannot go unnoticed and we hope that the u.s. company is able to modify and improve the algorithm in this particular case. It is a story that is very serious”.
In fact, as he told De May, everything would be due to the algorithms. That is, a set of math instructions that I can allow it to bind on the devices the most searched words in the Network, the so-called “trend topic”. Let’s take an example: if in a certain territory – such as the Campania or Italy – you type continuously, the phrase “Vesuvius wash with fire” or simply for uploading and sharing video on the subject, it is possible that the vocabulary in the local smartphone “learn” those words of very common use, and the “repeat”. And that, in any way, is proof that on the Web are constantly carried out research on discrimination, territorial vis-à-vis of the neapolitans.
“The main concept is that all the words of the most typical that traveling in the Network are stored in large databases,” explains Ernesto Burattini, former professor of Computer science at the “Federico II” -. We can see the algorithms as browsers and hidden that floating around on the net and found these words sensitive and propose it to the users. A bit like what happens with the advertisements that appear on many sites, and that reflect the research that we do in the Network. Very often these information, are provided to companies that then sell advertising.”
another explanation for which happens to the phenomenon of “Vesuvius” could be the cloud: a large basin of expressions from the Italian language that often warns of expressions in common use among the users. Therefore, no voluntariness is ascribed to the Apple, even if the phenomenon is not repeated on other types of devices, such as Android. This, experts explain, may depend on the type of security, which is different from a support to another.
Meanwhile, hundreds of neapolitans are on the foot of war and the rage runs on social. “I buy the IPhone and Ipad are racist at half the price,” wrote someone, between the serious and the humorous. Because in the shadow of Vesuvius: if you tap on a sour note like this, do not forgive anything, and even technology.
Yet it is not the first time that level-internet happens such a thing: in June 2015, stirred up a sensation, a discovery that he did speak people on the net for days and days. If you typed it on Google Maps, the phrase “wash by fire”, the indicator led straight to the image of mount Vesuvius. In that case it was the joke of some jolly fellow who scattered in different Network bug, not forgetting the “law of retaliation”. You mocked the “Old Lady”: in fact, if you typed “go to hell” it was shipped directly at the Juventus Stadium. So much so that Google Italy intervened to apologize, but only with Juve. The reference to Vesuvius remained.
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