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* YouThink.com had a swear filter in place for 'cock,' 'shit,' and the N-word. You'd see a lot of newcomers puzzled at what on earth a "roosterroach" or--better yet, a "poozu" (someone's attempt at Shih-tsu, I can only imagine). The N-word transformed into "I am a racist!," but it was very rarely seen.
** The same issues with ''cock'' caused at least one dial-up BBS to replace "poppycock!" with "poppypenis!"<!-- spotted on Crossroads 1:249/99.0 in the 1990s, not sure what software? -->
* A bizarre ''visual'' version manifested itself on microblogging site [[Tumblr]] when its then-owner Verizon abruptly [[Think of the Advertisers!|banned NSFW content to attract advertisers]] in December 2018. Automated image-evaluating software was deployed to detect content that would be forbidden under the new regime -- and it routinely flagged images of bread, beaches, bare feet, semiprecious gemstones, [http://cupofsorrows.tumblr.com/post/180783784555/dwellerinthelibrary-from-my-drafts-dirty-dirty Cambrian era sea life] and hundreds of other inoffensive subjects as potentially pornographic. It has been speculated that the sudden decision to ban porn ''immediately'' caught an existing project to phase out adult content by surprise and forced them to deploy their image-policing bots before they had been sufficiently trained, with the result that just about ''anything'' could generate a false positive.
** As of late January 2019, the automoderation software was still an [[Epic Fail]], unable to dependably identify banned content while spamming false positives -- even the Staff account found [http://xxtc-96xx.tumblr.com/post/180767256363/hrefnatheravenqueen-fucking-this-post-itself-is its own posts flagged]. Staff on a different social media platform also noted that the automod software [[Unfortunate Implications|seemed unaccountably biased toward white skin tones]], and along with its other fails was unable to detect models in black latex or leather bondage gear, nudes who were [[Ambiguously Brown]] or darker or, well, many other things NSFW that weren't plain naked white people.
*** At least one commenter on a different platform snarked that the automod software appears to have been programmed by an unimaginative innocent who's never seen anyone who wasn't white.
** A year later, the autocensor was ''still'' prone to interpreting things like [https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalComedy/comments/j2ug5t/shoutout_to_when_the_tumblr_auto_censor_bots/ an IHOP] as pornographic imagery.
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