词条 | Scunthorpe problem |
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The Scunthorpe problem is the blocking of websites, e-mails, forum posts or search results by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string of letters that appear to have an obscene or unacceptable meaning. Names, abbreviations, and technical terms are most often cited as being affected by the issue. The problem arises since computers can easily identify strings of text within a document, but interpreting words of this kind requires considerable ability to interpret a wide range of contexts, possibly across many cultures, which is an extremely difficult task. As a result, broad blocking rules may result in false positives affecting innocent phrases. Origin and historyThe problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's profanity filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring "cunt".[1] Years later, Google's opt-in SafeSearch filters apparently made the same mistake, preventing residents from searching for local businesses that included Scunthorpe in their names.[2] Other examplesMistaken decisions by obscenity filters include: Censored voice search results
Refused web domain names and account registrations
Blocked web searches
Blocked emails
Blocked for words with two meanings
News articles damaged
Other
See also{{Portal|Internet}}
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