English Explanatory Dictionary

Scunthorpe problem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

Scunthorpe problem the Scunthorpe problem

Etymology

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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