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I didn't know there was a name for this, what a fun Wikipedia rabbit hole[1]. Pretty entertaining that censors still don't get it right decades later. [1]: htt
by y-curious 3y ago
I didn't know there was a name for this, what a fun Wikipedia rabbit hole[1]. Pretty entertaining that censors still don't get it right decades later.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
- Dwedit 3y agoThe solution is to examine all words that contain that substring and explicitly whitelist them. Nowadays though, we have a different Scunthorpe problem. I call it the "Hidden Garfield" problem, because that phrase is detected as a racial slur after you run Double Metaphone on it and throw out spaces.