Hahaha I wonder if they did the same thing with anyone from Dildo, Newfoundland
No way. I live in a lttle hamlet called Filthy Cumslut and the same thing happened.
Such a beautiful name shouldn’t be tarnished by bigoted corporations
Fun fact, Google, Google Maps and Wikipedia all existed in 2010. All they had to do was spend an entire 10 seconds, less than the time it took to suspend the account, to find out it was a genuine location.
So if you were having a same sex wedding would you drive there just to send out invites so that the postmark read “Ft. Gay”
Commonly known as the Scunthorpe problem
The word or string “ass” may be replaced by “butt”, resulting in “clbuttic” for “classic”, “clbuttroom” for “classroom”, “buttignment” for “assignment”, and “buttbuttinate” for “assassinate”.
This is seriously one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. Like gosh, I’d recommend everyone give that article a full read. I couldn’t even get mad at the stupidity. I’m bookmarking this to read again when I have a bad day.
Peter Assegieg had to change his name to get on the ballot!
One of the legit uses of AI is moderation that goes beyond string pattern matching.
I see this all the time in Elden Ring. So many players want the word “Knight” in their name but it just ends up rendering as “K***ht”. Also the substring “ho” comes up a lot and is censored.
Every since then it is specificly illegal to ban residents located in fort gay from online services. Also known as Moore’s Law
A lot of events like this not this one but a lot boil down to English centrism like that Shiitake issue or the Quebec website who went by the acronym cum.
I’ve seen USians complaining about our word for black people, ignoring that calling someone black (like the color) used to be as offensive to us as the N word is to them, while our equivalent to the N word was the non-racist option. Older people who haven’t caught up with recent trends might still find referring to people as black offensive.
Poor old Nassir getting his name censored to N***ir
Where I live, there used to be an Officer Gay in our police. He retired a while ago, but just imagine the possibilities. There was graffiti. Soo much graffiti.
Like, this was a legitimate word, once, used for names and such.
The Flintstones theme song…
“We’ll have a gay old time”
That’s why Fred and Barney didn’t wear pants!
And neither did Wilma or Betty come to think of it.
It’s the stone age. Pants hadn’t been invented yet.
Gayming
All this fucking censorship needs to stop.
Get doxxed by Wikipedia, lol
At least its not Cockermouth
