Scunthorpe problem

noun

Scunthorpe problem

noun

Etymology Named after the erroneous censorship of the word Scunthorpe, an English town, by the Internet service AOL, because it contained the substring cunt, resulting in most auto-censors rewriting it as S****horpe.

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The unintentional blocking of harmless online content, such as emails, searches or accounts, by profanity filters or spam detectors, due to a substring resembling an obscene word.

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