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On another one, someone with the name “Hui” couldn't even post anything, because apparently it's a romanization of a Russian profanity and they had applied a global filter which would surely leave out quite a bit.

Or the online palæontological conference where the word “bone” was filtered...

How can one ever think such blanket filters will not go awry.




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