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Re:Why existing profanity detection libraries suck and how I... by jaclaz on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:09PM (#19088632)
Only as anecdata, I remember a Forum/Discussion Board (technical) that a few years ago had issues (its word filter) with the word Matsushita (Panasonic was fine ;)).
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Re:Why existing profanity detection libraries suck and how I... by WalterGR on Thursday February 07, 2019 @10:37PM (#19111309)
This is called the Scunthorpe Problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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