History Main / ScunthorpeProblem

* '''Porn''': Doesn't appear very often in English, but it's common in languages like German (''e.g.'' ''ans'''porn'''en'', "to cheer") and Thai (where it seems like a third of the country has a name ending in "-porn").

* '''Rape''' is a fairly common string, showing up in words like "g'''rape'''fruit" and "sc'''rape'''". The latter is a particularly interesting one, as it can also trigger from "crap" (and also means you can't talk about {{skyscraper|City}}s).
** ''Rape'' is also a plant cultivated for its oil content and is a very valuable agricultural crop: rapeseed oil is valued as a commodity. Therefore anyone wanting to talk agriculture could well be inconvenienced by a profanity filter.

** More than three asterisks in a row get shortened, requiring workarounds (for this page, we added an [=[==]=] every three asterisks in general).

* [=LiveJournal=] blocks interest searches for anything that {{squick}}s MoralGuardians, such as [[PedoHunt "baby carrots with cumin."]]
** Specifically, any phrase that has both a sexual-sounding word and a word for any family member hidden somewhere in it--for example, ''uncle''an hor''semen''--gets blocked, because apparently it could somehow be referring to incest or something.

* ''VideoGame/GemsOfWar'': "rape" is censored with asterisks, even inside words, leading to "grapes" turning into "g***[==]*s".

* ''Tetris Friends'' live beta's chat censor was incredibly inconsistent in the beginning. "Ass" was perfectly acceptable, but "lust" was not. This was made even more irritating by it ignoring spaces and punctuation, so "Well us too" turns into "Wel* ** *oo" alongside warning against profanity.

* '''Anal''' picks up words like "'''anal'''ysis", "c'''anal'''", and "'''anal'''ogue". One college in the early days of the Internet, trying to use a word filter to block out porn sites (being the biggest traffic waster in an era when Internet was expensive), had to disable the filter to buy a bunch of components from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Devices Analog Devices]]. When you include spaces, it also picks up phrases like "c'''an al'''ways" or "c'''an al'''so".

* On July 4, 2010, Website/YouTube "fixed" a [=JavaScript=] injection bug by simply filtering the word 'script' out of all comments. No, not even looking at word boundaries. This led to issues with the words "tran'''script'''", "de'''script'''ion", and "sub'''script'''ion" among others.

* The Toys/{{BIONICLE}} fansite Website/{{BZPower}} has run afoul of this from time to time. For instance, the word "mod" filters to "moderator", a filter put in place early in the site's life to discourage discussion of rival fansite Mask of Destiny (commonly abbreviated as [=MoD=]). However, this poses problems in discussions of "mods" (modifications) for sets, and such discussions come up fairly frequently. Additionally, a lot of even minor insults like "jerk" would filter to #### or "idiot" to "cool dude" (Both words that actually appear in BIONICLE media) in order to discourage flaming, which made a line in an official BIONICLE short story posted to the site by BIONICLE writer Greg Farshtey seem shockingly profane. Most members simply learn to alter their vocabulary since [=BZPower=] has well-enforced rules against bypassing the word filter in any way. Most mods (moderators) recognize that some filtered words are silly or out-of-date and that the filter is in major need of an update, but they still enforce the rule against bypassing the word filter so new members don't think that putting spaces between letters is allowed for serious infractions.

* Website/FanFictionDotNet seems to hate the Nazis. Not enough to censor the word itself in private messages, but good luck trying to say, for example, "Third Reich" without it coming out as "Third R***". They also blank out anything that resembles a URL, presumably to deter spam, which includes direct mention of their own name including the initialism [=FF.net=].

* The Website/MySpace-like social networking site Sitemodel.net was run by some [[TheFundamentalist very strict]] Christians, so not only were cuss words censored (and even words containing cuss words), but also words like "devil" and "Satan". The word "anal" was also curiously censored, and this turns the word "canal" into "c***[==]*". The mostly secular role players who moved to the site after [=MySpace=] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks changed its look]] and gave the site most of its traffic constantly complained about this in the site's suggestion blog, but to no avail, until the site's owner decided to create a separate site for them called Roleplayer.me, with fewer rules. Then so many flocked to this site and abandoned Sitemodel that it was eventually forced to shut down.

** Website/DeviantArt's can even screw up [=URLs=] this way, including ones ''inside'' HTML hyperlink tags.

* A Website/{{YouTube}} video about UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground had one commenter complaining about the announcer "swearing" at one point -- because he'd misheard the announcement as "last effing train". At least one amused respondent pointed out that announcement was actually "last '''Epping''' train".

** A few people have names containing the word, many of them named '''Cum'''mings, like Creator/EECummings the poet, or Dominic Cummings the British Conservative politician, who was portrayed in ''Film/BrexitTheUncivilWar'' by Creator/BenedictCumberbatch, who himself triggers this filter. The latter Cummings in fact cannot trend on Website/{{Twitter}} for his antics without triggering the filter.

* '''Effin''': The town of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effin Effin]] in Ireland was banned entirely from Website/{{Facebook}} (in one of its more risibly {{bowdlerize}}r moods). As one poster put it: