This reminds me of the recent removal of the Enola Gay in US government history archives because LGBT+ is DEI.
Forgetting that gay not only has multiple meanings, but only predominately referred to homosexuality in the 1980s.
I remember looking it up as a kid. 1970s era dictionaries did not include the present definition.
That’s an absurd word to ban in a swear filter anyway.
Gayming history at its finest!
Fun fact, Google, Google Maps and Wikipedia all existed in 2010. All they had to do was spend an entire 10 seconds, less than the time it took to suspend the account, to find out it was a genuine location.
And when it was appealed you would think the first thing the reviewer would do is search the net. Wild that it even got that far.
Hahaha I wonder if they did the same thing with anyone from Dildo, Newfoundland
No way. I live in a lttle hamlet called Filthy Cumslut and the same thing happened.
Such a beautiful name shouldn’t be tarnished by bigoted corporations
So if you were having a same sex wedding would you drive there just to send out invites so that the postmark read “Ft. Gay”
Commonly known as the Scunthorpe problem
In October 2004, it was reported that the Horniman Museum in London was failing to receive some of its email because filters mistakenly treated its name as a version of the words horny man.
There are a lot of gems in the article.
The word or string “ass” may be replaced by “butt”, resulting in “clbuttic” for “classic”, “clbuttroom” for “classroom”, “buttignment” for “assignment”, and “buttbuttinate” for “assassinate”.
This is seriously one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. Like gosh, I’d recommend everyone give that article a full read. I couldn’t even get mad at the stupidity. I’m bookmarking this to read again when I have a bad day.
Peter Assegieg had to change his name to get on the ballot!
Not gonna lie, Pete BUTTigieg does sound like a stereotypical gay character in an 80s sitcom.
I see this all the time in Elden Ring. So many players want the word “Knight” in their name but it just ends up rendering as “K***ht”. Also the substring “ho” comes up a lot and is censored.
Two or three services blacklisted something in my username, Lyra Lycan. To this day I never found out what, why or which language
I mean if using UTF-8 a single “character” can be twice the size of that. Depending on what counts as a character it can be even bigger. There’s no way this wouldn’t go **rribly wrong.
One of the legit uses of AI is moderation that goes beyond string pattern matching.
Every since then it is specificly illegal to ban residents located in fort gay from online services. Also known as Moore’s Law
Where I live, there used to be an Officer Gay in our police. He retired a while ago, but just imagine the possibilities. There was graffiti. Soo much graffiti.
Like, this was a legitimate word, once, used for names and such.
The Flintstones theme song…
“We’ll have a gay old time”
That’s why Fred and Barney didn’t wear pants!
And neither did Wilma or Betty come to think of it.
It’s the stone age. Pants hadn’t been invented yet.
“It’s the stone age. Pants hadn’t been invented yet.”, said the director to the actress
( You reminded me of this https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/george-lucas-carrie-fisher-wear-underwear-star-wars/ )
Gayming
All this fucking censorship needs to stop.
A lot of events like this not this one but a lot boil down to English centrism like that Shiitake issue or the Quebec website who went by the acronym cum.
arse technica
Poor old Nassir getting his name censored to N***ir
I’ve seen USians complaining about our word for black people, ignoring that calling someone black (like the color) used to be as offensive to us as the N word is to them, while our equivalent to the N word was the non-racist option. Older people who haven’t caught up with recent trends might still find referring to people as black offensive.
At least its not Cockermouth
Or Penistone
Get doxxed by Wikipedia, lol
