Even accepting your premise as as true (which I don't necessarily), social media isn't the only space in which this problem appears. The article itself mention

Even accepting your premise as as true (which I don't necessarily), social media isn't the only space in which this problem appears. The article itself mentions "members of British Parliament [being] blocked from viewing the Sexual Offences Bill they had proposed by a government spam filter"[0] and "the London Horniman museum’s emails [being] flagged because systems thought they meant 'horny man'"[1]. [0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_politics/2723851.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_politics/2723851.stm [1] http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/533121.Name_of_museum_is_confused_with_porn/ http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/533121.Name_of_museum_is_c...