The problem? People on the internet swear too much. The solution? A content filter that blocks profane words and naughty letter combinations. Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? #technology #internet #history #historyfacts
The year 1996. The problem. People on the internet swear too much. The solution. A content filter that blocks profane words and naughty letter combinations. Sounds like a great idea with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? Turns out the English language. The filter started nuking innocent words like the perfectly respectable town of Skuntorp. I’m sorry, Skunthorp, England. When the resident Doug Blackey tried to sign up for the service, AOL basically told him to off their pigs. AOL forcibly renamed the town to Scunthorp, coining a new term, the Scunthor problem, which continues to this day, forking up small towns, ducking over people with unfortunate surnames, batch slapping Pokemon cards, dog breeds, and even Super Bowl 30. Sometimes the dirtiest thing is the filter.
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Suisex?
Contact filters like that are a waste of time. To me it's just censorship. It's a censorship filter. And I want to kick the ass with the person who thought it was a good idea. I am not changing my mind if that mother fucker is in a wheelchair or some shit.
And of course, the humble town of Penistone
I’ll live close to a Sussex
cofagrigus literally got banned in online play in its original game without a nickname solely cuz of that name
Sussex
Middlesex
Essex
Oh boy
This reminds me of a certain sued game
yeah, in my language is the similar problem. middle parts of some words are similar to some curse words like "оскорблять", "блёстки" or "страх". So you could get banned for completely innocent conversation
I tried to nickname a shiny Pokemon grape soda, because it was a purple shiny. It took me forever to realize why they wouldn't let me do it. Censorship is evil.
Alternate solution: wash their mouths with soap (and water if you wanna)
Reminds me of the guy name Nasser who name got censored to n***er which is just a million times worse
Ifunny is notorious for abusing this problem. The small community on that app now have an entirely separate set of profanity. The n word gets corrected to “noon”. A person who likes kids is corrected to “emu”. So on and so forth. They even have one for Indian people, but I forgot it after all these years.
This reminds me of the chat filter situation in Roblox
Dumbass libertarian magazine
Reminds me of a story I heard of this guy who's xbox username was "Nasser" but the game censored "a$$" and made it say "N***er" which is a LOT worse 😂
well, just don't be scared of words and stop censoring everything murica
like how dead by daylight censored the words meghead (it was used as an insult for meg players) or even michael myers for whatever reason
If this were true now, my last name would be considered profanity
And it even happened to Minecraft.
Great job Microsoft.
Cue the song "almost a slur"
Huh so I learned that censorship on the internet started earlier than I thought. Interesting
My bank wouldn’t let me change my address because they thought “Cape” was a bad word.
Elden ring nightreign
The dog got mogged
Roblox, when I try to type anything:
Oh yeah, the Scunthorpe problem
Ask those Japanese players, banned from a video game tournament for saying "escape/flee" in Japanese.
Kinda screws spanish too.
I need to * *n shoes
I need to put on shoes
A clbuttic mistake
Going to school in the early 2000s with a bunch of refugee kids from Iraq and watching those kids invent their own english slurs to use against white kids has 100% convinced me all censorship is pointless.
You take kids, with barely any life experience and no grasp of the language they still found a way to say hateful things. If they can do it, terminally online adults can do it too.
And now GOP has made it worse by having another content filter
Welcome to f*cking a beutaful village at the doorstep of the astrian alps
Who even puts their town in their username
I think those names 😅 were originally designed with that thought in mind
That whomps.
Thw internet is supposed to be free so we shold by able to sware
The amount of times i see a bad censor makes me scream, its class not cl*** arrgh!
Like have some intern type the words in instead of have a fliter that searched the letters in a order ffs
YouTube policy forces YouTubers to beep or otherwise hide words like "sewside" (self-unalive).
And this makes things worse by drawing too much attention to what was said.