Anti-porn filters stop Dominic Cummings trending on Twitter
Twitters anti-porn filters have blocked Dominic Cummings name despite Boris Johnsons chief adviser dominating British political news for almost a week, the Guardian can reveal.
As a result of the filtering, trending topics over the past five days have instead included a variety of misspellings of his name, including #cummnings, #dominiccummigs and #sackcummimgs, as well as his first name on its own, the hashtag #sackdom, and the place names Durham, County Durham and Barnard Castle.
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This sort of accidental filtering has gained a name in computer science: the Scunthorpe problem, so-called because of the Lincolnshire towns regular issues with such censorship.
Bizarrely, the shortened hashtag #cumgate has also trended, since the first word of the sentence is not included in Twitters filter list, apparently in an attempt to avoid the Scunthorpe problem applying too broadly for instance, by blocking words such as scum, cumbersome or cumulative.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/27/anti-porn-filters-stop-dominic-cummings-trending-on-twitter
See, you knew there had to be some advantage to a name that everyone took the piss out of at school ...