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The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning. Names, abbreviations, and technical terms are most often cited as being affected by the issue.
The implementation of a profanity filter by AOL in 1996 had the unintended consequence of blocking residents of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England, from creating accounts because of a false positive. [43] The accidental censorship of innocent language, known as the Scunthorpe problem, has been repeated and widely documented. [44] [45] [46]
NetAlert, the software made available free of charge by the Australian government, was allegedly cracked by a 16-year-old student, Tom Wood, less than a week after its release in August 2007. Wood supposedly bypassed the $84 million filter in about half an hour to highlight problems with the government's approach to Internet content filtering. [42]
A poster in a WBAI broadcast booth which warns radio broadcasters against using the words. The seven dirty words are seven English-language curse words that American comedian George Carlin first listed in his 1972 "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" monologue. [1]
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Four letters that solve most problems. Rubber-hose cryptanalysis: Cryptography by other means. Scunthorpe problem: Spam filtering based on text strings can cause problems. Just ask the residents of S****horpe. Send Me To Heaven: A mobile game won by throwing your phone as close to heaven as you can without it getting there. Tay (chatbot)
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