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> We both guessed the censor was catching it as a false positive for the slur.

There is a word for this. It is called the Scunthorpe problem. Named after the incident in which the residents of the Town Scunthorpe could not register for an AOL account because AOL had an obscenity filter that did not allow the Town name.

It has been a problem since 1996 and still causes problems.






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