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Censorship is getting out of hand (lemmy.zip)

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[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 57 points 1 month ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's profanity filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England, from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring "cunt".

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