Anti-porn filters stop Dominic Cummings trending on Twitter

[JonLP24]

Twitter’s anti-porn filters have blocked Dominic Cummings’ name despite Boris Johnson’s chief adviser dominating British political news for almost a week, the Guardian can reveal.

As a result of the filtering, trending topics over the past five days have instead included a variety of misspellings of his name, including #cummnings, #dominiccummigs and #sackcummimgs, as well as his first name on its own, the hashtag #sackdom, and the place names Durham, County Durham and Barnard Castle.

The filter also affects suggested hashtags, meaning users who tried to type #dominiccummings were instead presented with one of the misspelled variations to auto-complete, helping them trend instead.

This sort of accidental filtering has gained a name in computer science: the Scunthorpe problem, so-called because of the Lincolnshire town’s regular issues with such censorship.

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/27/anti-porn-filters-stop-dominic-cummings-trending-on-twitter?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=&__twitter_impression=true

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. So, Cummings

is not coming?

[quaint]

3. The UK prime minister's

most senior adviser has come

[dalton99a]

4. He's a fucking creep