Scunthorpe problem

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Etymology edit

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

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Noun edit

Scunthorpe problem

  1. The situation where a spam filter or search engine blocks or modifies content because the text contains a string of letters shared with an obscene word.