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by lelandfe 1390 days ago
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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Sort of? "Tahoe" isn't the problem. Sure, "hoe" is a substring of "tahoe" but it's pretty clear that "tahoe" is a placename in a string like "visitlaketahoe.com". IMO they absolutely knew what "gotahoe.com" would be parsed as, it's very clever. It'd be a Scunthorpe if the site was getting flagged for "hoe", but it's a parsing problem at the user layer, not censorship elsewhere.
Yeah, it's more a "CU in the NT" https://ntunofficial.com
> they absolutely knew what "gotahoe.com" would be parsed as, it's very clever

I'm not so sure :) goblah.com is one of the most popular tourism domain configurations that exist.