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by codehalo 407 days ago
Typing "gender" in a phrase such as "sexual gender", "age and gender" works.
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Yes you can also just put "gender" in quotes and it works. Or you can spell it wrong - transgender is blocked, but you can do transgendr and it will correct your spelling and return results. Of course, some of the pages it returns have been deleted.

Presumably this was implemented by some developers trying to do the absolute bare minimum to comply with the absurd orders they were given.

It's entertaining to see the early 2000s name "disemvoweling" return with a new purpose!
So it's not just censorship it's bottom of the barrel dumb censorship too.
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