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by zozbot234 1588 days ago
Profanity filter running amok? See the old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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Ages ago, I remember some corporate mail server (Corel?) blocking some emails which were discussing Microsoft Exchange. They were blocking "sexchange" and "msexchange" matched.
A very smart and senior engineer, whom I greatly respect, was researching DNS owners via whois and told me: “the guy who registered “therapist dot com” is the same guy who registered “the rapist dot com.”

We never stopped teasing him about that.

Does fb messenger have a profanity filter?