Scunthorpe problem

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词形变化

the Scunthorpe problem

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

词源

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

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