Scunthorpe problem

English

Etymology

Named after the erroneous censorship of the word Scunthorpe, an English town, by Internet service AOL, because it contained the substring cunt.

Examples

Noun

Scunthorpe problem

  1. The situation where a spam filter or search engine blocks or modifies content because the text contains a string of letters shared with an obscene word.
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