Twitter adds content warnings to tweets about The Kinks. Someone tell whoever's left there about the Scunthorpe problem

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Originally published at: Twitter adds content warnings to tweets about The Kinks. Someone tell whoever's left there about the Scunthorpe problem | Boing Boing

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Kinks Shaming :roll_eyes:

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I quite assure you this is not the case. One of the last platforms not dedicated to it, perhaps?

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Warning: You just might tap your feet.

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Somewhere Ray and Dave are discussing whether they should have stuck with The Ravens.

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Chief Twit, Elon Musk?

I think one of those words has the wrong vowel in it.

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Hey, look, I only go to PornHub to read their informative articles!

Edit for It should read “Chief Dick Weenier Bell End Sweaty Ball Sack Cock Pizzel, Elon Musk”

Edit to add quote to add context to my edit comment to my comment.

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It is working! Look at me, Ma; I’m dancin’! I’m dancing!

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How many fascist Twitter users are searching for Lola anyway?

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The engineering geniuses now in charge of Twitter appear to have run headlong into the infamous Scunthorpe Problem, so named because it’s a big town whose name is likely to trigger ineptly-designed censorship code.

I’ve always heard this referred to as a “Clbuttic” error. Granted they aren’t replacing “ass” with “butt” in this instance, but it’s the same naïve error.

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I was wondering if it isn’t just transphobia

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They prefer to be called “young conservatives” because they’re not like everybody else. :wink:

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Note that Twitter boss Elon Musk was the founder of a banking startup that merged with another to form PayPal

Pedantry of the day: no, they didn’t merge to form PayPal. PayPal already existed as the offering of the company that purchased Elon’s similar online payment program. They quietly buried of all Elon’s work, his software was never seen again, and PayPal took off. It was strictly to buy out a potential competitor rather than, you know… competing.

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Knowing how Twitter works these days, there’s a very real possibility that this is happening just because Elon doesn’t like Davies.

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There are actually three English football clubs that trigger the bad words filter. Scunthorpe is one. Arsenal is another. And the third is Manchester-fucking-United.

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They’re speaking these days?

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They’re even talking about a reunion tour! Maybe Ray getting shot put things in perspective for both of them.

Shame Pete Quaife won’t be able to join them, although I think his falling out with Dave was bad enough that he might not be invited even if he were still around.

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And, very importantly he was fired after insisting that PayPal use Windows NT for their back office as opposed to Linux

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I guess I have to be the one to ask the dumb question. Is it just the word “kink” that is tripping the conservabot? I’ve worked on word censoring systems for video games quite a bit, and have never seen “kink” be on the lists. I mean… it also just means “sharp bend”. It’s a pretty basic English word.

I worked on a video game aimed at kids and even that one’s word blocker didn’t include “kink”. I am perplexed.

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he’s tired of waiting for him

Seeing what they did, there

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