From the BBC:
…an algorithm by Twitter is causing some issues for The Kinks. The band’s name is leading to all of its posts being flagged up as containing sensitive content. The band’s co-founder and guitarist, Dave Davies, has pleaded with the social platform’s owner, Elon Musk, to lift the warnings.
It’s an outrage. Now here’s a song about copping off with a tranny.
To say nothing of frilly nylon panties…
Susie Dent was just telling me about this last night: The Scunthorpe Problem – our robot masters find rudeness in innocuous words/names and, like Kenneth Williams, whip it out immediately. The Mum Pumpers..
What, I shudder to ask, were you doing with Susie Dent?
Swapping consonants.
Filthy swine.
A female friend of mine did some online dating on a rather famous site for singletons. Her profile kept getting deleted, until she worked out that her opening line of ‘I love cocktails’ was causing the problem…
Was there an 11 character limit on text boxes?
Arf!
The Sega Megadrive had some problems in Italy because Segare is the Italian verb for sawing, and is also slang for something else that involves a lot of arm movements and wrist action.
What’s so wrong with playing tennis? 🤔